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	Chapter 1: Dual System of Rapid Transit
		The existing rapid transit lines which will be embraced in the new system have 296 miles of single track.
		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.
	www.nycsubway.org /articles/newsubways1.html (4292 words)

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		Various corporations, organized during the thirty odd years of unsuccessful attempts by the city to secure underground rapid transit, claimed that their franchises gave them vested rights in the streets to the exclusion of the new enterprise, and they were prepared to assert their rights in the courts.
		The demands for rapid transit had become more and more imperative as the years went by, and it was fair to assume that neither the courts nor the municipal authorities would be overzealous to find a narrow construction of the laws.
		Incidentally, the constitutionality of the rapid transit legislation, in its fundamental features, had been upheld in the Supreme Court in a decision which was affirmed by the highest court of the State a few weeks after the Board had adopted its new plans.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/7/5/6/17569/17569-8.txt (19921 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 (6381 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.rapidtransit.net /net/thirdrail/0201/sirt8.html (365 words)

	New York Elevated Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The New York Elevated Railroad Company was born 27 October 1872, as a reorganization of the bankrupt West Side Patented Elevated Railway Company, the first attempt anywhere at building an elevated rapid transit line.
		A bill was proposed to the Legislature that called for the creation of a rapid transit commission with authority to select routes and devise plans for a four track rapid transit road.
		It was decided not to initiate new rapid transit enterprises, but rather to encourage and smooth the way for those that already existed.
	www.ironhorse129.com /rollingstock/CandS/dsp-passenger/nyelrail1.htm (1131 words)

	Engineering Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), it was a joint effort between public officials and private investors to alleviate New York’s traffic congestion.
		The Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) was built in a four year period, ending in 1904.
		The Interborough Rapid Transit Line was a marvelous invention that battled through a rough political climate and drilled through hard Manhattan schist.
	www.pitt.edu /~bla2/project.html (4889 words)

	The coming of the subway to New York: a history of the New York City subway as reported in the pages of Railway Age and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 company are to operate the subway in New York City, and two routes are specified, one 14 and the other 7 mites in length.
		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.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1215/is_6_205/ai_n6143577 (904 words)

	The Third Rail Online Magazine of Rapid Transit Index
		The Brotherhood of Interborough Rapid Transit Employees, a company union, launched an amazing 100% percent effective strike against the entire IRT rapid transit system and the Manhattan els, winning a 25% across the board pay hike.
		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.
		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)

	Construction Company.com - Historic Construction Project: New York City Subway System
		Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) won the job after its bid of $35 million was accepted.
		The construction company chose shallow cut and cover as the excavation method to avoid having to tunnel deep under New York's infrastructure.
		The company went bankrupt during the Depression and the city took it over.
	www.constructioncompany.com /historic-construction-projects/new-york-city-subway (1850 words)

	Westinghouse Works, 1904
		This was especially true of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company which obtained contracts for several highly visible projects, namely the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in New York, the South Side Elevated Railroad Company in Chicago, the Niagara Falls Power Company, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
		Prompted by the success of the design made for the Manhattan Elevated Railway, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company decided to employ the same type of electrical device for the rapid transit subway being built in New York.
		In 1893, the Westinghouse Company was asked to supply parts for the conversion of the waters of the Niagara Falls into electrical power.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/papr/west/westproj.html (757 words)

	Historic Construction Projects - New York City Subway System
		The idea of an underground subway system had been discussed by politicians for decades, and finally it was decided in 1900 that a subway would be built.
		Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) won the job after its bid of $35 million was accepted.
		The construction company chose shallow cut and cover as the excavation method to avoid having to tunnel deep under New York's infrastructure.
	www.generalcontractor.com /resources/articles/new-york-city-subway.asp (1882 words)

	Construction Company.com - Historic Construction Project Articles
		The Hoover Dam was built by a construction company called Six Companies Inc, which was actually a consortium of several commercial construction companies: Morrison-Knudsen Co., Utah Construction Co., J. Shea Co., Pacific Bridge Co., MacDonald and Kahn Ltd. and a joint venture of W. Bechtel Co., Henry J. Kaiser, and Warren Brothers.
		Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the construction company chosen for the job after its bid of $35 million was accepted.
		Trammell Crow Company's CargoCentre™ III and AirFreight and LogisticsCentres™ Complex - This four-building air cargo complex at Dallas / Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport in Texas may be the most significant air cargo project to be built un the United States.
	www.constructioncompany.com /historic-construction-projects (703 words)

	New York Subway
		The City decided to issue rapid transit bonds and build the subways itself, and contracted with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) to equip and operate the subways, sharing the profits with the City and guaranteeing a fixed five-cent fare.
		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.
		The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation or BMT was a holding company that operated both elevated trains (els) and subways through its subsidiary New York Rapid Transit Corporation, mostly within Brooklyn or connecting Brooklyn to Manhattan and Queens.
	en.mcfly.org /New_York_Subway (3960 words)

	Sherman Square Subway Station
		Serious consideration was given to building a rapid transit system in New York City as early as the 1860s, when the streets of lower Manhattan were choked with slow-moving traffic.
		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.
		Bids were solicited in 1900; the contract awarded for $35 million to the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company, leased the subway to the contractor for fifty years.
	rogershepherd.com /WIW/solution2/72nd.html (1605 words)

	Interborough Rapid Transit Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The former IRT lines (the numbered lines in the current subway system) are now the IRT Division of the New York City Transit Authority, also known as the A Division.
		The first IRT subway ran between City Hall and 145th Street at Broadway, opening on October 27, 1904.
		It acquired the pre-existing Manhattan Elevated by lease, gaining a monopoly on rapid transit in Manhattan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interborough_Rapid_Transit_Company (538 words)

	IRT: The First Subway
		The Interborough Rapid Transit Subway, or IRT, was the first subway company in New York City.
		Even with elevated train lines springing up around the city, the need for an underground rapid transit railroad was obvious as a solution to street congestion and to assist development in outlying areas.
		The IRT subway had not even opened yet when this set of new route proposals was floated to the Rapid Transit Commission in February, 1904.
	www.nycsubway.org /irtsubway.html (784 words)

	Vault light History and Concrete Vault Lights
		Purposefully employed by the designers of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company’s (IRT) subway, vault lights were constructed in the ceilings above the platforms to create an inviting underground space for a public unaccustomed to subterranean travel.
		Along with decorative amenities and the promise of rapid transit, the subway depended largely on pure, natural light to attract its riders.
		With the emergence of Portland Cement as a new building material at the end of the nineteenth century, the vault lights used in the IRT subway system were constructed with round, translucent glass lenses set into reinforced concrete.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/tps/technotes/ptn47/vault_history.htm (463 words)

	Amazon.com: "Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, which was in the business of running trains from Manhattan to Brooklyn,...
		By 1899, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (E3RT),...
		Two companies submitted bids; Belmont's Interborough, expectedly enough, but also a streetcar and elevated railway operator from Brooklyn called the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT).
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Brooklyn-Rapid-Transit-Company (618 words)

	Notes on the Collection of Transfers, Appendix A
		Mauch Chunk and Lehighton Transit Company (Mauch Chunk and vicinity).
		Bay Cities Transit Company (Santa Monica, Venice, and the Sawtelle district of Los Angeles).
		Glendale and Montrose Railway Company (Glendale and vicinity).
	www.sidis.net /TransA.htm (1680 words)

	NYART - Technology in the City Web Exhibit - Transportation Timeline
		The tunnels for the first subway line in the City, the Broadway Line of private Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) are constructed through the rocky center of Manhattan from City Hall to the northern tip of Manhattan, beginning in 1900.
		New York City approves a dual system under which the rapid transit lines controlled by the Independent Rapid Transit Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company are expanded and organized as two networks.
		The New York City Transit Authority is formed 13 years later by the State of New York to operate the subway and public bus system.
	www.nycarchivists.org /exhibit/trtime.html (1029 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)

	New York City Subway Celebrates 100 Years
		On October 27, 1904, New York City's underground rapid transit system was inaugurated and 150,000 people paid a nickel each to ride the fastest city transportation system in the world.
		Three men were primarily responsible for the construction of the NYC subway: August Belmont, president of the privately owned Interborough Rapid Transit Company; John B. McDonald, the successful bidder for the tunnel contract; and William Barclay Parsons, chief engineer.
		Rail transit includes conventional subway (rapid) railcars and light rail cars, and excludes freight, commuter, high speed or any other rail vehicles under the jurisdiction of the Federal Railroad Administration.
	www.ansi.org /news_publications/print_article.aspx?articleid=804 (629 words)

	ACF Industries - ACF Information - History
		This was one of the thirteen railroad carbuilding companies that merged in 1899 to form the American Car and Foundry Company.
		It was the first of a shipment of 300 similar cars built for New York City's pioneer subway, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company.
		American Car and Foundry Company's reputation rapidly spread abroad and in 1905 more than 100 motor and trailer subway cars were shipped to England for use in London's underground system.
	www.acfindustries.com /acf_information/history.asp (383 words)

	Interborough Strike of 1919 by G.J. Christiano - The Third Rail - 1/03 - Page 4
		Two hours after the strike was in effect not a train was stirring on the "L" or in the subways of the Interborough system - which means the Second, Third, Sixth and Ninth avenue lines of the "L" system and the Seventh avenue-Broadway and Fourth-Lexington avenue subways and their branches.
		Only the Brooklyn Rapid Transit subway, running south in Seventh avenue from Broadway and Fifty-seventh street, and the surface car line remained in operation.
		An Interborough special officer was aboard and announced at various stations through a mega- phone "This is the last train downtown."
	www.thethirdrail.net /0301/strike4.htm (726 words)

	Jamaica Buses Inc.
		The last section of track to be built by the company was a short one-mile extension from 212th Street to the city line on Hempstead Avenue at Belmont Park, this track was placed into service during 1904.
		With the new bus franchise in hand, the company motorized all the routes in the latter part of the year.
		By the 1970s, deferred maintenance had taken its toll on the City's rapid transit system, and additional demands were being made for express bus services between Queens and Manhattan.
	www.jamaicabus.com /profile.htm (570 words)

	New York Transit Museum - Teacher Resource Center - History of Public Transportation in New York City
		The IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit Company) began construction on the first subway line in 1900, and less than four years later, the IRT began whisking New Yorkers beneath city streets, carrying over 100,000 riders on its very first day.
		New York City Transit was created by the New York State Legislature in 1953 and became part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority when the MTA was created in 1968.
		The seven companies operated 46 local bus routes in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens and 35 express bus routes between Manhattan and the Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens.
	www.transitmuseumeducation.org /trc/background (1892 words)

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