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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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traildriver
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Traildriver:
I checked my copy of "RIDE THE BIG RED CARS" (Spencer Crump); from what I gather, the PE right-of-way in the median of the Caheunga Pass Freeway was begun in 1947.
This was, in fact, PE's last gasp in trying to update the system, and make it competitive with automobiles.
The project cost nearly $20 million.
Had this freeway route been successful, PE would have then incorporated new routes in conjunction with the building of other new freeways.
Ah, what might have been.....
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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MARTA (Atlanta), and the Metro in Baltimore also utilize median strip running bisecting busy highways.
Also, Washington, DC.
This view is of the DC METRO:
http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/dc/htm/dcm02.htm
(courtesy: newdavesrailpix)
*BART, also, features median running.........
http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/sf/htm/sf085.htm
(it would indeed seem, from the previous photos posted, that PE's idea of "freeway running" was not such a bad idea after all......in fact, in this respect, PE was light-years ahead of the times)......... |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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traildriver:
Cool!
Thanks for sharing!
Until the 1950's, B&QT streetcars operated in a "median" of sorts going over the then new-Coney Island Avenue bridge over the Belt Parkway.
This was also one of the very few places in Brooklyn where double-arm overhead poles were used.........
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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STRANGE but TRUE:
Believe it or not, the CTA, back in the late 50's/early 60's, proposed a self-guided "busway" that would have operated in the median strip on an expressway.
The buses would have congregated at a central point (inbound) and then be coupled together and then operated into downtown as an MU "bus train".
The bus-trains were to be guided electronically; the buses would have stopped and started by picking up signals through cables in the ground.
Originally, the bus-trains would have used a fixed guideway to keep trailing vehicles in line; however, as just mentioned, this would have been eliminated by picking up the correct signals via underground cables.
In "BUSES, TROLLEYS, & TRAMS" (Chas S. Dunbar, 1967), there is an artist's rendition depicting this unique Chicago operation, showing a three-car MU train of postwar TWIN COACHES........strange, but true........
GE was supposed to have supplied the electronic gear for this operation, had it ever gotten off the drawing board.....
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