Talk:Dual Contracts

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Notes

Planning of the lines

March-May 1905: plans adopted for many lines including Manhattan Bridge, Lafayette Avenue, and Fourth Avenue
April-October 1905: Brooklyn IRT redesigned with provisions for Manhattan Bridge, Lafayette Avenue, and Fourth Avenue
1907-1908: Fourth Avenue Line moved from Flatbush Avenue to Ashland Place to allow for non-IRT operation; junction included for Lafayette Avenue
May 1908: Brooklyn IRT opens
November 1909: ground broken for the Fourth Avenue/Manhattan Bridge Line in Flatbush Avenue Extension
March 1911: possibly the first proposal to use the junction for the Brighton Line

--NE2 02:08, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that the initial plan for the Triborough System included essentially the West End Line: [1] --NE2 14:47, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Route numbers

4 Seventh-Eighth (used for Broadway between 23rd and 42nd and Seventh to 59th; also at least part of Seventh to the Battery)
5 Broadway-Lexington Avenue (used for Broadway Line south of 11th Street and Lexington Avenue Line)
9 Brooklyn and Manhattan Loop Lines (Nassau Street)
10 Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island City Route
11 Fourth Avenue
15 Jerome subway with connection to el through 162nd Street (used for Ninth Avenue El extension)
16 Jerome elevated, 157th (or Clarke?) to Woodlawn
17 Gerard subway (unused)
18 White Plains Road
19/22 Pelham?, 138th to Bancroft (165th)
23 River Avenue Route (used instead of 17)
26 (used)
33 Montague Street Tunnel; Whitehall Street
36 Broadway between 11th and 23rd?, 59th, Woodside?, Astoria?
37 Woodside?, Astoria?
38 (used for part of Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line)
39 New Utrecht
41 Eastern District
43 (used)
45 Broad Street
46 Flatbush, St. Felix, and Fulton
48 Clark Street Tunnel, Park Place
49 Gravesend
50 Steinway Tunnel, Queensboro Plaza

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