A Question About A NYC Subway Line
WHAT was so INDEPENDENT about the Independent Subway or ICOSS, which stands for Independent City Owned Subway System? Really, what made it Independent?
It was not owned by a private company. The BMT or Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company, formerly the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, ran subways, trolleys, bus routes and elevated lines in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. The company traded on the NY Stock Exchange for $65 per share. It invested in great rolling stock to make traveling comfortable.
Rather, the Independent Subway was a public work created possibly for spite. Mayor John Hylan was once a BRT Motorman who was fired for union organizing activities, not for reading law books while driving his train. Hylan built the IND to undermine BMT Lines.
Independent Subway was run by politicians, hence it should be called Political Run Transit or PRT.
Today, IND Trains traverse the Old BMT Lines on the West End, 4th Avenue and Brighton Lines and The Culver Line. The R is serviced in an IND Yard. The B & D are 6th Avenue IND as well as the F Line. The N is BMT as is the Q. Only the N in Brooklyn is a pure BMT Line. The IRT 7 is for point of connection and Maintenence a BMT Line.
The only real BMT Lines are J, M & Z Lines with the N & W Lines. The A is IND running on former BMT Trackage over the remains of the Fulton Street Line over Liberty Avenue. The F runs over the former BMT Culver Line.
The IND now reigns Supreme as it and BMT are one division.
IRT Lines used to be names and mo numbers. BMT used to be numbers. The IND is all letters. The IND's nomenclature is all over the BMT. Hence, BMT has ceased to exist. Hylan won his war.
It was not owned by a private company. The BMT or Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company, formerly the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, ran subways, trolleys, bus routes and elevated lines in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. The company traded on the NY Stock Exchange for $65 per share. It invested in great rolling stock to make traveling comfortable.
Rather, the Independent Subway was a public work created possibly for spite. Mayor John Hylan was once a BRT Motorman who was fired for union organizing activities, not for reading law books while driving his train. Hylan built the IND to undermine BMT Lines.
Independent Subway was run by politicians, hence it should be called Political Run Transit or PRT.
Today, IND Trains traverse the Old BMT Lines on the West End, 4th Avenue and Brighton Lines and The Culver Line. The R is serviced in an IND Yard. The B & D are 6th Avenue IND as well as the F Line. The N is BMT as is the Q. Only the N in Brooklyn is a pure BMT Line. The IRT 7 is for point of connection and Maintenence a BMT Line.
The only real BMT Lines are J, M & Z Lines with the N & W Lines. The A is IND running on former BMT Trackage over the remains of the Fulton Street Line over Liberty Avenue. The F runs over the former BMT Culver Line.
The IND now reigns Supreme as it and BMT are one division.
IRT Lines used to be names and mo numbers. BMT used to be numbers. The IND is all letters. The IND's nomenclature is all over the BMT. Hence, BMT has ceased to exist. Hylan won his war.
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