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	The Third Rail Online Magazine of Rapid Transit Index
		Not included in the expanded system was New York's "forgotten" borough and the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company and its 22 route miles of electric lines, which stayed with its parent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for another 31 years.
		Mention of rapid transit on New York's Second Avenue usally leads to a discussion of the unbuilt Second Avenue Subway.
		The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation's influence extended far beyond the borders of its namesake borough, New York City, or even the U.S. One of the outposts of its pioneering spirit was the Soviet Union, in what was then Leningrad.
	www.thethirdrail.net (662 words)

	Brooklyn Rapid Transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) was a transportation holding company formed in 1896 to acquire and consolidate transit facilities in Kings County, now Brooklyn, New York.
		Though the BRT was the public face of the consolidated companies, it left it to the acquired companies or newly formed companies to carry out the actual operation of the system, to provide power and services for the system, and even to design and acquire rolling stock.
		World War I and the attendant massive inflation associated with the war put New York transit operators in a difficult position, since their contracts with the City required a five-cent fare be charged, while inflation made the real value of the fare less than three cents in constant currency value.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brooklyn_Rapid_Transit_Company (335 words)

	Rapid Transit Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated, or metro system is a railway system, usually in an urban area, that usually has high capacity and frequency, with large trains and total or near total grade separation from other traffic.
		Most rapid transit systems use conventional railway tracks, although since tracks in subway tunnels are not exposed to wet weather, they are often fixed to the floor rather than resting on ballast.
		The rapid transit system in San Diego, California operates tracks on former railroad rights of way that were acquired by the governing entity.
	www.aplaceinthesun.com /encyclopedia/Rapid_transit (5483 words)

	Rapid transit Summary
		A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated, or metro system is a railway system, usually in an urban area, with a high capacity and frequency of service, and grade separation from other traffic.
		The terms "rapid transit" or "metro" tend to view this as a less important characteristic and include systems that are entirely elevated or at ground level (at grade).
		Before any plans were made for transit systems with underground tunnels and stations, several railway operators built tunnels for their trains, usually to reduce the grade of the railway line.
	www.bookrags.com /Rapid_transit (4832 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Malbone Street Wreck
		The Malbone Street Wreck, also known as the Brighton Beach Line Accident of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT), was a rapid transit railroad wreck that occurred November 1, 1918, beneath the intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Ocean Avenue, and Malbone Street, in the community of Flatbush, Borough of Brooklyn, New York City.
		It remains, of this writing, the most deadly rapid transit railroad wreck in world history, killing at least 93 individuals.
		In the present day, a struck transit system ordinarily closes down in an orderly fashion until the strike is resolved, but the BRT would likely have been more criticized for not attempting to keep the system running, absent the accident.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Malbone_Street_Wreck (1309 words)

	Rapid transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A rapid transit, underground, subway, tube, elevated, or metro(politan) system is a railway—usually in an urban area—with a high capacity and frequency of service, and grade separation from other traffic.
		Rapid transit systems that are above street level may be called "elevated" systems in the US (often shortened to el or L, as Chicago's system is popularly referred to).
		The first underground transit line was a short piece of Boston's Green Line, opened in 1897, but this was a streetcar tunnel that only carried rapid transit trains from 1901 to 1908 (when Boston's first new rapid transit tunnel opened).
	www.tocatch.info /en/Metro.htm (3085 words)

	Opening of the Broadway Subway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brooklyn passengers going to north Manhattan via Fourth Avenue subway and Manhattan Bridge and desiring to go north of Fourteenth Street will have an opportunity to do so for a single fare, but will be required to transfer at Fourteenth Street to the local subway service.
		The Fulton Street (Brooklyn) elevated line ought to have a physical connection with the subway to Manhattan, and the disfigurements about the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge ought to be removed as an incident.
		Perkins' letter was carefully studied by members of the commission, and his plan may be one of the features of further extensions of the rapid transit system, which are already receiving some attention by various members of the commission and of rapid transit officials.
	www.nycsubway.org /dual/broadway01.html (3219 words)

	New York City Subway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Brooklyn, the various elevated railroads and many of the surface steam railroads, as well as most of the trolley lines, were consolidated under the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT).
		The expansion of rapid transit was greatly facilitated by the signing of the Dual Contracts in 1913 between the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the City of New York (contract 3) on the one hand, and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and the City of New York (contract 4) on the other.
		Several Brooklyn lines extend into Queens, and these are elevated, except for the final station on the Myrtle Avenue Line, which is on the surface, and the last two stations of the Jamaica Line, which is in a new (1989) subway.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/p-hilton.html (4093 words)

	Staten Island Rapid Transit by Irvin Leigh & Paul Matus - Page 8
		The BRT was an amalgam of rapid transit and trolley railways of which some were owned and others were leased.
		The BRT was locked in a battle with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) for the rights to operate new subway and elevated lines planned or being constructed by the City of New York for leasing to private operators.
		Attempting to trump the IRT’s plans to monopolize new rapid transit building in New York City, the BRT came up with a plan for a complete transit system, including a proposal for a tunnel under The Narrows from the Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) subway tunnel to the vicinity of St. George.
	www.thethirdrail.net /0201/sirt8.html (365 words)

	Railway Age: The coming of the subway to New York: a history of the New York City subway as reported in the pages of ...
		The rapid transit problem on Manhattan Island will be pretty effectually solved by the completion of the underground railway, which is to carry passengers from the city hall to Harlem in fifteen minutes.
		The Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York has just placed in service on its Second Avenue Line an experimental all-steel coach of a type which it is proposed to use subsequently to a large extent in the subway, with such changes as tests of the present car may indicate to be desirable.
		The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, through the New York Municipal Railway Corporation, which was formed to enter into the proposed contract with the city, desires to issue $100,000,000....
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1215/is_6_205/ai_n6143577 (1224 words)

	Brooklyn Borough President
		However, neither Brooklyn — with its population of 2.5 million residents — nor the other boroughs are represented on the MTA Board.
		I believe that drivers are now calling riders’ cell phones before declaring the rider a no-show, and I would like to see this courtesy expanded to a system where drivers routinely call riders when the vehicle is a half-mile away, permitting riders to wait inside their buildings until the vehicle is close by.
		Hospitals are one of the largest public employers in Brooklyn, yet access to such major hospitals as Kings County, Maimonides and the VA Hospital require three or more buses from many pockets of Brooklyn, due to the outdated network of bus routes.
	www.brooklyn-usa.org /Pages/Testimony/Testimony-jun21.htm (1380 words)

	The San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railroad
		Two months later, the San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railroad Company was incorporated “for the purpose of constructing a railroad from some convenient point in the City of Los Angeles to the town of Monrovia.” The capital stock of the new corporation was set at $250,000, and all of it was eventually sold.
		Financial affairs of the company were aired when the railroad sued G. Dobinson in an attempt to collect a stock assessment of fifty per cent.
		After the Southern Pacific purchased the San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit, a branch was built from the Raymond Hotel, up Broadway, to a depot on the southeast corner of Broadway and Colorado Street.
	www.erha.org /sangabrielvalleyrapidtransit.html (2297 words)

	RAPID TRANSIT FACTS AND INFORMATION
		MTR of Hong_Kong also uses platform_screen_doors, the first to install PSDs on an already operating system.) Rapid transit systems in the United States do not use PEDs, with the exception of the Las Vegas Monorail which was the first system to use them in the country because of the city's desert climate.
		In the United States, the lack of metro, subway, or other rapid transit systems except in a few of the larger cities has been attributed to automobiles, buses, and advocacy of public road-funding to compete effectively against existing streetcar and trolley systems.
		In the other direction, interurban_streetcars provided rapid transit-style transit from cities to suburbs and other cities, running mainly on separate rights-of-way (sometimes sharing tracks with intercity_rail) but using streetcar equipment.
	www.palfacts.com /Rapid_transit (5007 words)

	New York Transit Museum - Teacher Resource Center - Vocabulary
		BRT Brooklyn Rapid Transit, the company that operated almost all Brooklyn transit prior to the Dual Contracts, at which time its name changed to the BMT.
		conductor In the case of mass transit (subways), the conductor is the person responsible for safely closing the doors, making announcements regarding passenger transport and safety, and signaling to the driver that the train is ready for departure.
		MetroCards were introduced to the transit system in 1994 and became the only form of fare, replacing tokens, in 2003.
	www.transitmuseumeducation.org /trc/curriculum/vocab (1479 words)

	BMT Lines History
		The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was incorporated in 1896 and by 1900 as a result of mergers and aquisitions it had aquired control of all of these companies (and more).
		On March 19, 1913 the City entered into contract with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the New York Municipal Railway Co. (BRT) to expand and improve existing rapid transit facilities and construct new subway lines to be operated by these companies.
		1) Companies were to retain a "preferential" based on profits they were earning on their rapid transit operations prior to entering into the contracts with the city.
	www.bmt-lines.com /history.html (2935 words)

	Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company 1914 - New York
		This historic document was printed by the Franklin-Lee Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of a train and its conductor.
		The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was incorporated in 1896 and by 1900 as a result of mergers and aquisitions it had aquired control of all of these companies (and more).
		The BRT was a holding company -- it began to consolidate the elevated lines under a subsidiary called the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Co. Another subsidiary, the Transit Development Company, was formed to own the shops and rolling stock.
	www.scripophily.net /brookraptran.html (502 words)

	Chapter I: Dual System of Rapid Transit
		The need for additional rapid transit is shown by the fact that all of these avenues of transportation were congested during the rush hours and that the congestion is increasing from year to year.
		The Brooklyn company is also to operate a new subway under 14th Street, Manhattan, with a tunnel under the East River to the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn and East New York.
		Rapid transit facilities in The Bronx will be more than quadrupled by the completion of the Dual System.
	www.nycsubway.org /dual/newsubways1.html (4256 words)

	Rapid transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A rapid transit, underground, subway, tube, elevated, or metro(politan) system is a railway system, usually in an urban area, with a high capacity and frequency of service, and grade separation from other traffic.
		Those who prefer the terms "rapid transit" or "metro" tend to view this as a less important characteristic and include systems that are entirely elevated or at ground level (at grade).
		Rapid transit systems that are above street level may be called "elevated" systems in the US, often shortened to el (or sometimes L, as in Chicago 'L').
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Metro (4130 words)

	The Third Rail - The Third Rail - 1975: NY Fare Politics - page 2
		The private operators, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company agreed to this fare (among other considerations) and in return, the City paid the lion's share of the cost of building the new lines which were then leased to the IRT and BRT (later BMT) for operation.
		With the 15c fare came the provision that operations must be paid for "from the farebox," a theory of transit with far-reaching effects which led, among other things, to a program of deferred maintenance which, with other devices, held the fare stable for 13 years, but at great damage to the system's physical plant.
		The Transit Authority's budget was not, and still is not, a part of the City's budget.
	www.rapidtransit.net /net/thirdrail/0007/fares2.htm (670 words)

	Brooklyn Bridge
		The company was permitted to fix toll rates for pedestrians and all types of vehicles, receiving a profit of no more than 15 percent per year.
		And as the mass of the anchorages had to be sufficient to offset the pull of the cables, where they were secured on land, so the mass of the towers, whatever their height, had to be sufficient to withstand the colossal downward pressure of the cables as they passed over the tops of the towers.
		By 1910, the penny toll on the Brooklyn Bridge was removed after the City of New York passed a law prohibiting the use of tolls to finance construction and maintenance of its bridges.
	www.nycroads.com /crossings/brooklyn (4351 words)

	New York Press - WILLIAM BRYK -
		Among the stories recently published in the dailies about past transit strikes, I saw none about the brief strike by motor-men employed by the privately owned Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) in November 1918.
		At the yard, he was given a train, four of whose five cars were at least 30 years old, each car with a steel underframe and a wooden body and roof.
		In 1923, the BRT was reorganized as the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation–the BMT.
	www.nypress.com /15/52/news&columns/oldsmoke.cfm (1842 words)

	subway
		The Interborough Rapid Transit Company was the original subway.
		It entrusted two competing companies with the task of expanding and separately operating the subway.
		In 1923, the BRT had to be reorganized and became the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company, or BMT.
	xellex.freehomepage.com /Subway/page7.html (687 words)

	Wired New York Forum - View Single Post - Subway Centennial
		The city needed new transit networks to ease crowds on its clogged streets and to expand into openland to the north and south.
		The 9.1-mile stretch of 28 stations is operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT).
		The ride ends at the Brooklyn Bridge "when the Royalsons, escorted by an admiring throng, walked triumphantly through the station" on their way to catch a trolley.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showpost.php?p=25358&postcount=5 (2094 words)

	New York Subway
		In Brooklyn, the various elevated railroads and many of the surface steam railroads (and most of the trolley lines as well) were consolidated under the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT).
		The expansion of rapid transit was greatly facilitated by the signing of the Dual Contracts in 1913 between the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the City of New York on the one hand, and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and the City of New York on the other.
		Several Brooklyn lines extend into Queens, and these are elevated, except for the final station on the Myrtle Avenue Line, which is on the surface, and the last two stations of the Jamaica Avenue Line, which is in a new (1989) subway.
	en.mcfly.org /New_York_Subway (3960 words)

	Trolleys to the Casino: The EH&A System -- 1907-1921 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At times, the company had difficulty raising the funds to pay its bond interest, due semi-annually in April and October, and occasionally had to borrow from the Exeter & Hampton Electric Company in order to make the April payments, the money being repaid in the late spring or early summer.
		In later years, he became general manager of the Claremont Railway Company at Claremont, N. The efforts to reduce expenses were offset, at least in part, by wage increases, a pay dispute involving conductors and motormen having resulted in a short strike in February 1917.
		Purchased by the town from the Exeter Railway & Lighting Company were $100,000 in capital stock and 576,000 in mortgage bonds of the EH&A, payment being made with $76,000 in 25-year 5 per cent municipal bonds dated February 1, 1921.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/HISTORY/trolleys/casino17.htm (2494 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Notes from the underground in New York
		The Rapid Transit Board planned one original route, stretching from City Hall to 96th Street, which then split into two more routes from Broadway to 242nd Street and another that ran under the Harlem River into the Bronx.
		A public rapid transit board was formed and laid out the route, which ran from a point near City Hall to 42nd Street, then west to Times Square, and then north to Broadway to 96th Street, where the line divided.
		The IRT extends to the Bronx in 1905, Brooklyn in 1908 and Queens in 1915.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /ARCH/Notes-subway.htm (6150 words)

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