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Re: Design your own IND Re: G Train to be cut back to Court Square permanently |
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Posted by BMTLines on Sat Jan 19 21:02:08 2008, in response to Re: Design your own IND Re: G Train to be cut back to Court Square permanently, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jan 19 20:43:34 2008. The explanation for the BMT not building the Ashland Place Connection was not necessarily financial. BMT Chairman Gerhard Dahl wrote in 1924:"The third plank relates to the proposed connection between the Fulton Street "L" and the Fourth Avenue system at Ashland Place. The B. M. T. is entirely willing to sign a contract for the Ashland Place Connection as soon as it has definite and tangible assurance that the City will construct and complete the 14th Street- Eastern arid the Nassau Street Lines." [...] Now, the important fact about this situation and the connecting link between Ashland Place and the Nassau-Broad Street Extension is that Contract 4 provided that these two tracks instead of forming a dam at Chambers Street should continue down Nassau and Broad Streets -to a connection with the Whitehall-Montague tunnel and with the extra tracks in Broad Street for a terminal. This was an integral part of the system planned for operation by the Brooklyn Company so as to provide for double loop operation via Manhattan Bridge and the tunnel. It's absence today constitutes serious limitation on the capacity of the lines already built in Brooklyn and now in operation. It renders the two south tracks on Manhattan Bridge practically use less. It limits the number of trains through DeKalb Avenue, for the sixteen tracks of the various branches feeding into this station have, as a practical matter, only four tracks outlet to Manhattan. This in turn limits the number of trains and increases the interval between trains on the various branches. With these conditions existing it would only multiply the congestion and the blockades to attempt to route additional trains via Ashland Place into DeKalb Avenue. The completion and operation of the Nassau Street Line by allowing the use of the two south tracks on Manhattan bridge and by the additional tracks on Broad Street would provide for an increase of approximately 50 per cent more trains through DeKalb Avenue station. A 50 per cent increase in service through DeKalb Avenue would be a Godsend not only to the people of Central Brooklyn and East New York and to the people who desire the Ashland Place Connection, but to the whole of South Brooklyn." The BMT proposed to build the Ashland Place connection in 1924 with its own funds but for the reasons stated above would not proceed unless the city completed the Nassau Loop which it had agreed to in the Dual Contracts. The city delayed opening the Nassau Loop till 1931 - by that time the BMT was in negotiations to sell its system to the city and was no longer interested in spending any more money on something it would be giving up anyway. |
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