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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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BROOKLYN BRIDGE KROM THE BROOKLYN SIDE Sixth Street and 1 16th Street. On the Ijghth Avenue street traffic south of iM.urteenlh Street, especially on the line cars are switched back north at Cortlandt Street Ferry, I.roadway and Sixth Avenue and Fio-hth Avenue lines. Canal Street and Thirteenth Street, and south at 1 iCth Cars are also recjuired to come to a full stop at crossings S^*^^^- where fire companies are located, at transfer points and at 388 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIII. No. 14. intersections with other lines. At the present time theSubway construction also proves a considerable delayto operation. For instance, it is not unusual during therush hours to have 180 to 200 stops and slow-ups on theBroadway line between South Ferry and 146th Street, andsimilarly on the Fourth Avenue line to have 125 to 150stops and slow-ups 1)etwecn the Postoffice and 135thStreet. The accompanying- diagrams, Nos. i, 2 and 3, showthe hourly variation of passengers on the Broadway,Fourth Aven

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