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Posted by Lou From Middletown NY on Tue Jan 6 09:53:02 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by Michael549 on Mon Jan 5 11:59:39 2009. One of Cudahy's points in The Malbone Street Wrek, is that even without Malbone St, the BRT would have gone bankrupt at the exactly the same time it did. He documents just about every civil settlement the company made in relation to the accident, and most of them are shocklingly low - even for 1918. The real reason for the BRT bankruptcy was the part of the Dual Contracts which froze the fare at five cents.One of the real reasons the SI link was not built, was because of John Hylan - ironic considering that when Hylan died, they named a street after him IN Staten Island... |
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