|
|
| Re: Tuscarora Almanac for December 18 (1496310) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > SubChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: Tuscarora Almanac for December 18 |
|
|
Posted by Dyre Dan on Tue Dec 18 11:07:30 2018, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for December 18, posted by Union Tpke on Tue Dec 18 10:24:37 2018. Notice that this was three weeks (and a day) after the opening of the Chrystie St. connection. I think the idea was to provide passengers who wound up on 6th Ave. trains instead of the Broadway line trains they formerly would have taken with an alternate means of getting to Grand Central or Times Square. That would fit the directions of IND to IRT in the morning and the opposite in the afternoon.For part of the time the paper transfer was in effect, it used not just a printed piece of paper but an electronically encoded strip that got inserted into special turnstiles. I think this was the first instance of subway turnstiles accepting electronically-encoded media of any kind. It was an experiment that only lasted a few months, IIRC. I think some time in 1969 or 1970. When the transfer passage finally opened, MTA Chairman William Ronan was there to cut the ribbon (on the 6th Ave. end). I was there too, and waited around a bit for him to do it, but I got tired of waiting. I noticed people ducking under the ribbon and using the passage anyway, and I eventually did the same. There was no barrier on the Flushing line end, so people who walked through the passage in the other direction would have had no choice but to duck under the uncut ribbon. |
|
(There are no responses to this message.)
|
|