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Re: IND FULTON/NOSTRAND ENTRANCES TO BE REOPENED |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Feb 10 16:35:34 2020, in response to Re: IND FULTON/NOSTRAND ENTRANCES TO BE REOPENED, posted by randyo on Sun Feb 9 17:21:56 2020. The BMT had just emerged from the bankruptcy of the BRT in 1923. Like the Fulton/Ashland Place connector, it did not want to spend extra monies on equipping the proposed crosstown tunnels with more costly steel subway cars, plus equipping the underground line. It wanted an elevated line, so it could run its wooden cars.Around the same time, Mayor Hylan was having preliminary plans for an IND Crosstown subway. Those plans called for a Lafayette Ave route to downtown Brooklyn. IRT plans for a Lafayette Ave subway route predated the Dual Contracts of 1913 by at least 2 years. Even back then, it had been hoped that any eastward expansion of the downtown Brooklyn shopping/business district would develop along Lafayette. Add to this was the strong opposition for any more elevated lines in Brooklyn. Hylan, of course was from Brooklyn and shared the same sentiments. |
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