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Posted by Marc A. Rivlin on Sat Sep 5 15:50:00 2020, in response to Re: Essex- Before the IND, posted by Handbrake on Sat Aug 24 21:55:26 2013. Depending upon the year, the city didn't always call the shots. It was a complicated political situation involving state and city entities. It was really a mess, The Wikipedia article on the Board of Transportation lays it out well. The legislature empowered the Rapid Transit Commission in the 1870s to develop and oversee transit line. Then, it shifted authority to the Public Service Commission in the 00s. In the 1921 it created New York State Transit Commission to oversee transit. And, in 1924, it authorized the city to create the Board of Transportation for new transit lines while the state Transit Commission would continue to oversee the existing privately operated lines. As with the MTA board today, who served on the boards and commissions, and who appointed them, reflected who had been given the decision-making power. At the point in the 20s when the IRT might have wanted at least the ability to build west, construction power was in the city's hands, at least with respect to the authority to build the Eighth Avenue line to block the IRT. There are Times articles about all this that I read about a decade ago that are very illuminating. |
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