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Posted by Express Rider on Tue Mar 17 20:04:52 2015, in response to Re: Myrtle Avenue El, posted by randyo on Tue Mar 17 15:02:22 2015. re: "since Myrtle Av lines up almost perfectly with Montague St." I didn't know that - thanks.Not being (unfortunately) a NYC native completely familiar with this downtown area, I could only estimate where tunnels might have connected after viewing Google Maps - which of course is not the same Brooklyn as decades ago. So this dispute about payment occurred around 1915, and for how long approx. did it last before fizzling to back burner status (my assumptions here)? The BOT was formed in when - 1919-1920 or earlier? Plans for the 1st phase of the IND were published in a NYT article in 1922 If the most/all of the IND routes were planned and cofirmed, in-house, by the BOT, sometime before 1920, could the BOT (with personalities like Delany, Ridgway, & Snow at the helm for clout) have derailed the payment dispute for the BRT/BMT's Ashland/Fulton St. projects, by presenting instead, the IND Fulton St. subway as an alternative - a major route of the new and extensive municipal subway network? If the payment dispute had been resolved relatively quickly, and Ashland/Fulton el work had begun, could the new BOT have waded into the dispute anyway and terminated the work (pushing for the IND routes), or could ongoing Ashland/Fulton work ultimately have "scotched" BOT Fulton st. subway plans, and the BOT would simply have taken over management of it? ----------------------------------------------------------- PSC reports - what a wealth of information in these volumes. The law library in Boston where I worked during the 80s had a complete set of these 1st district reports. When I discovered the transit material, I'd stay late after work and get lost reading them (I wanted to photocopy everything I found - ha,hah!) |
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