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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ely a mile and a half. This narrow area is now servedby a three-track elevated railway on Ninth Avenue, run-ning rapid express trains night and morning, and soon tobe equipped for a vastly superior and more rapid electricservice; two electric lines on Eighth and AmsterdamAvenues, now in operation and giving an exceptionallyperfect service; a cable line in Columbus Avenue, soon tobe converted to electricity; a horse line on upper Broad-way, immediately over the proposed tunnel line, electricaloperation of which by the underground conduit systemwill begin within a few weeks, and a horse line on Amster-dam Avenue to be run by electricity in due time. An independent tunnel railway will hardly get from thisdistrict more than the through, or long distance, travel. Incompetition with it will be the surface lines giving freetransfers to any part cf the city below Fifty-ninth Street,and the elevated lines, giving a service almost as rapid asthe underground, with 3-cent transfers over the upper
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December, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 875 Broadway surface line, and many others in the city. Thetunnel railway will miss the profitable short distance ridingentirely, including the major part of the ladies shoppingtravel, and if the city insists upon express train servicethroughout the day, as appears probable, it will unques-tionably be conducted at a heavy loss. The only salvation for sections I. and II., as a railroadproposition, is that through their construction upperBroadway from Forty-second Street north will become agreat business street similar to lower Broadway. Wedoubt if this will happen, for many years to come, at least,for the feeder district to such a street is narrow and ispopulated by a class of people who would resent the intro-duction of the business element into this region. Eventu-ally, perhaps, when some outlet above the Park has to begiven for business development, the existence of such arailway as this would determine the march of progress, andthe city woul

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