Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthony Milli's interest was roused the minute he laid eyes on the young fellow. Mr. Milli is a subway cop, sensitive to subway manners, and there was something about the way the young man sauntered into a Brooklyn subway station that looked suspicious. Milli hid in a nearby booth and watched...
...years most New Yorkers have agreed on a program for bettering the lot of the subway sardine: 1) unification of the city's three systems (Interborough Rapid Transit. Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, the city-owned Independent) under municipal ownership & operation; 2) maintenance of the 5? fare; 3) more subways to relieve congestion. But the history of Unification reads like a machine-age edition of Pilgrim's Progress. The city had to find ways & means of setting aside contracts with IRT and BMT (good until 1967, 1969), raising money enough to buy out private interests. After nearly 20 years...
This brought under city ownership the longest underground transit system in the world-130 miles of subway routes (London. 75 miles; Paris, 70). Together with an additional 120 miles of elevated lines, it carried 2.255,000,000 passengers during the last fiscal year, more than were carried by any other railroad. But the below-cost 5? fare-politically inexpedient to change -has piled deficit upon deficit on New York's subways. Not until 1982 will the last of the present transit debt be paid off. Fortnight ago, an apprehensive Citizens Budget Commission put the total ultimate cost...
...Sixth Avenue route, four and a half years abuilding, cost $60,000,000, is the world's most expensive subway mile for mile. As an engineering feat, it is probably the most complex in railroad history. Within its short 2.2 miles, contractors burrowed under or over six other rapid transit tunnels, had to hold up the heavy overhead Sixth Avenue El (since torn down) and most of the buildings along the route with piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power...
...keep out the roar of trains, promenades in & out of the elaborate 34th Street station by which one can walk all the way to 42nd Street. Proud but not satisfied is the city's Board of Transportation. Included in plans for the far future : an East Side subway to replace the 2nd and 3rd Avenue elevateds, a subway under Central Park, four new tunnels under the East River and one to Staten Island...