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Unhappy the stranger in any of New York City's three subways. Equally lost are most natives in the maze of the city's 35-year-old transit troubles. Most New Yorkers long since decided what they wanted-unification of the three lines and a guaranteed 5? fare. But for 18 years the Unification Express has been rattling past stations, stalling in dark tunnels. Suddenly last week, to the general public's surprise, it slowed for a stop. Tentative acceptance of the city's offer to buy the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp...
...most lucrative franchise ever offered, it drew a lone bid of $1,000, which was promptly rejected. The city thereupon decided to build the subway itself and August Belmont, then a financial outsider, came forward to act as contractor. When the line was finished in 1904, his Interborough Rapid Transit Co. secured a lease to operate...
...further acquiring trolley lines and elevateds, I. R. T. soon had a monopoly on Manhattan transit. Meanwhile Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. attained a similar monopoly across the river in Brooklyn, though it had no subway then. This cozy set-up has foliated through the years until today New York's rapid transit lines are a complex tangle with only three clear-cut divisions...
...Graphic's original plan was no pipe dream but a solidly considered plan of rapid transit. It suggested that the city utilize the drained Miami & Erie canal for the underground mileage, cover it with a high-speed roadway for surface traffic. Even in the Graphic days the two-square-mile Basin was beginning to be crowded and Cincinnatians, whose town has more hills and valleys than any other in the Union, were putting their homes back on the hilltops to get above and beyond the city's industrial smoke...
...cross the French border into Catalonia at one time required passage through three independent sets of custom officers-Madrid's, Catalonia's, the Anarchists'. Supplies earmarked for transit through Catalonia for the Central Government were often waylaid...