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Re: The reason NYC stopped building subways |
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Posted by murray1575 on Thu Feb 6 07:24:10 2020, in response to Re: The reason NYC stopped building subways, posted by Dyre Dan on Thu Feb 6 02:57:45 2020. Not only did the city have the issues you mentioned, but much of the equipment on the IRT and BMT was worn out due to the heavy use of the system during WWII due to gas rationing and other shortages and lack of maintenance. Between 1948 and 1964 almost all of the IRT cars were replaced (except for a few Steinway cars on the Third Ave. line) which required infrastructure upgrades to support them. Hundreds of BMT Standard and Triplex cars were also replaced along with all of the non-standard cars such as the Multis. |
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