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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2422 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:09 am Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Washington Plaza, 1972.
Note how the silver numbers on Fishbowl #6000 are quite difficult to decipher, in contrast to the gold number adorning Flex New Look #5058's dash.
Though both buses are assigned to the "#44", note the roller curtain (lettering) size difference between the Fishbowl and the Flex......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154621
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#5058 used a recycled roll sign from the first Fishbowl order the 'Tee-Yay' ever made, in 1959; 6000's (the very first of the two-tone blue set) was later 1960's. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:34 am Post subject: |
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W.B.:
I guess "recycling", then, is not a new thing!
Going back to buses which replaced El trains (Myrtle Avenue/Bronx 3rd Avenue) did anyone ever do a "time comparison" comparing the length of time that the trains took from "A" to "B", to that of the replacement buses?
Recall, also, that the buses had to contend with varying traffic conditions, as well as traffic lights; the El trains, of course, were free of these conditions.
Though the "Tee-Yay"/"Em-Tee-Yay", I am sure, were happy to rid themselves of these old El lines, I'm wondering just how much "progress" was made, time-wise, by replacing the elevated trains with buses.....
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:45 am Post subject: |
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Two views of the El at Gun Hill Road, in 1973, not long before the line closed.
In each photo, a MaBSTOA bus is seen beneath the el structure; here again, you have to think:
ONE bus, even if jammed full of standees, is NOT going to have anywhere near the capacity of a rapid transit train consisting of several cars*......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?57207
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?57206
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*(In today's world, a replacement BRT [Bus Rapid Transit] route might have worked; perhaps, as an El alternate, dedicated bus lanes)
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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Until 1946, TARS streetcars ran beneath the 3rd Avenue El in Manhattan; SURFACE buses replaced the streetcars, and, in turn, SURFACE bue were replaced by MaBSTOA buses in the early 1960's.
In 1973, the Bronx section of the 3rd Avenue El was closed; area riders now depended on MaBSTOA buses.
In 1969, when the Myrtle Avenue El in Brooklyn was closed, the only option that former El riders had were, again, the buses ("Em-Tee-Yay")
Though, of course, the buses were capable of far greater flexibility than any of the rail-bound streetcars that they replaced, they still could not hope to measure up to the high-capacity levels of the elevated trains.
That ANY sort of "El" survives today in the City is largely because these lines were extensions of subway lines, where a good proportion of the routes themselves are underground......
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2021 11:04 am Post subject: |
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Ditmas Avenue, 2009.
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?102143
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
Rubber-tired milk cartons have long since replaced the "classics", the old Culver Shuttle (and the trains* that served it) is now but a distant memory.........move on, folks, nothing to see here.......
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*(The R-46's, are already deemed a "classic" by many enthusiasts today (after all, they date back to the 1970's!), but they DO look quite "humdrum" these days, without their original blue striping)
In the meantime, here's a bit of nostalgia from 1978.......
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?5756
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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.......interesting, too that what later became MaBSTOA eventually replaced two rail lines, both streetcar and rapid transit.
Here again, even if SURFACE service along the former route of the 3rd Avenue El in Manhattan was increased, the buses still could not compete (capacity/speed-wise) with the El trains, even as elderly as they were.
Recall, also, there were those ever-optimistic folks that indeed believed that the new 2nd Avenue subway would soon be built, and put into service; remember, too, the extra burden placed upon the already-overcrowded East Side IRT (Lex) lines, when the 3rd Avenue (Manhattan) line closed.
In 1946, SURFACE purchased 97 TD-4506's and 103 TD-4507's; that same year saw the end of TARS conduit streetcars in Manhattan.
Interestingly, in Guy E. Martin's book "NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT BUSES", there is no mention (in the MaBSTOA chapter) of the new buses (the T6H-5309A's) that were purchased to replace the 3rd Avenue El trains in the Bronx (1973).......
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