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Fifty Years of Rapid Transit (Walker, 1918)

Charles T. Harvey operating car by cable power on first elevated railroad in Greenwich Street, in 1867.

Fifty Years of Rapid Transit

James Blaine Walker

Illustrated
Copyright by Author 1918
From the Press of The Law Printing Company, Church Street, New York City 1918

This HTML edition corrected from OCR provided by the Making of America Project at the University of Michigan, with permission. The original page images and OCR for this book can be found at University of Michigan Digital Library, Fifty Years of Rapid Transit, 1864-1917 / by James Blaine Walker, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library 2005.

CONTENTS

Chapter		Page
	Preface	I
I	First Suggestions of Rapid Transit	1
II	The First Rapid Transit Bill	9
III	Pioneer Plans for a Subway	15
IV	First Rapid Transit Bill Vetoed	30
V	Legislative Commission on Rapid Transit	40
VI	Work of Senate Committee of 1866	60
VII	Inception of the Elevated Railroads	71
VIII	First Tunnel Built Under Broadway	87
IX	Gilbert Elevated Railroad and Rapid Transit Commission of 1875	105
X	Era of Public Ownership Opens	123
XI	Rapid Transit Act and Commission of 1894	139
XII	Contract for Construction of First Subway Awarded	162
XIII	First Subway Completed and Placed in Operation	176
XIV	Metropolitan Company Compels Merger with Subway	192
XV	Rapid Transit Commission Abolished and Succeeded by Public Service Commission	207
XVI	Dual System of Rapid Transit Adopted	224
XVII	Extent, Importance and Cost of Dual System	242
XVIII	Decked Roadway Method of Construction	263
XIX	Rapid Transit in Brooklyn	274
XX	The Hudson and Manhattan Tunnels	284
	Afterword	291

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