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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ding other sta-tion: for handling a part of the people who now use and will cnn-tnuic to use the present bridge, regard should be had to makingsuitable connections or transfer points with the north and southtirnsportation lines of Manhattan, to supplying some crosstownfacilities in the downtown district, and to a connection with theni..rf im;Hirisnt of the North river ferries. (10) No .sjstem of local loops for handling the bridge carswest of the present platform would materially improve or increasethe present bridge car service. (11) The terminal of the trolley car service over the bridgenuist for the present remain in the Manhattan terminal. The trol-•V car tracks cannot be extended across Park Row and its exist-ing surface tracks. These tracks are now burdened to their fullcapacity, and to cross or ciU into them would result in serious ob-struction 10 i>olh systems, and would increase the congestion atthat poiit.. (12) The terminal trolley tracks should be so spaced as to pro-
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.MAP or LOWER NEW YORK. Vide Jinple platforms l>etween them; passengers should he prevented Irom crossing tracks at grade, and incoming and outgoingpas5cngcr- should be separated. fi.l) Any changes at or enlargements of the Manhattan ter-nunal <houl<l, so far as possible, l)e of such a character that theymay Ix carried out without serious interruption to travel. (14) These changes should be of such a character that substan-tial benefit may be realized in the shortest possible time. (15) While the existing conditions at the Manhattan terminalare such as to justify, if necessary, the expenditure of a large sumof money to provide a remedy, economy must not be disregarded,particularly since the question of arranging the finances so thatthe work may proceed without delay is of the utmost importance. The principal recommendations of the board are as follows: RECOMMEND.MIONS. (O That an elevated road be built from the Manhattan ter-minus of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge along Cen

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