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Re: Age limitations
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:19:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> No, not exactly. More like it has to be driven by market forces. NY subway,
> arguably one of the best US ones (in terms of routes, connections and coverage
> possible), is a socialized amalgam of several competing subway lines that were
> built by private companies all trying to serve customers and make money at it.
> Ditto for Chicago, and ditto for Boston.
I'm familiar with that Boston trolley history, but NY is a little different. The
underground lines for the most part date from a 1900 city-financed project let
out to a contractor. It was charted to serve Manhattan and the Bronx. Other
underground lines had been tried (some city-financed), trolleys lasted rather
longer afterward.on the surface, and there were numerous elevated lines
privately operated (especially to the Bronx). The underground contract was
undertaken by a company hastily formed by such men as John B. McDonald, John
Peirce, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and George W. Young to name a few. How we got from
that big chunk, to the 5-borough MTA I have not yet learned (no they are not
still using all the old parts.)
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| (...) No, not exactly. More like it has to be driven by market forces. NY subway, arguably one of the best US ones (in terms of routes, connections and coverage possible), is a socialized amalgam of several competing subway lines that were built by (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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