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V Sound View Avenue Line: Hunts Point: Clasons Point: Westchester Avenue and Sound View Avenue March 8, 1947 now the Bx27 bus V Williamsbridge Line: East Tremont: Wakefield (city line) Tremont Avenue, Morris Park Avenue, and White Plains Road August 21, 1948 now the Bx39 (formerly Bx28) bus W Webster and White Plains Avenues Line: The Hub ...
In 1899, the line was extended from Southern Boulevard to Hugh Grant Circle in Unionport. [3] On July 10, 1948, the streetcars were replaced by the Bx42 bus, which followed the same routing as the streetcar. [4] On February 19, 1984, the Bronx bus system was revamped, and the Bx42 was renamed to the Bx4. [5]
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Streetcars found steam power impractical, and more often progressed directly from horse power to electricity. Suburban electrification involved true trolley cars, but the required overhead wires were forbidden in New York (Manhattan). Traffic congestion and the high cost of conduit current collection impeded streetcar development there.
The Bx35 replaced 167th Street Crosstown Line streetcars on July 10, 1948, albeit slightly truncated to Westchester Avenue-East 167th Street. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Residents of a nearby building protested having the route use Bryant Avenue (as 167th Street is one-way westbound between Bryant and Westchester Avenues) and believed the diesel fumes would ...
The Bx36 replaced 180th Street Crosstown Line streetcars on October 25, 1947. Its original south-eastern terminus was at Bruckner Boulevard-Zerega Avenue via Cross Bronx Expressway, running all times except nights until February 1984.
The line started operating in the early 1900s as a streetcar line between Inwood in Manhattan and Belmont in the Bronx. [7] [8] This line was known as the 207th Street Crosstown Line, the Fordham Road−207th Street Crosstown Line [7] or the Fordham Road Crosstown Line [9]) In 1948, the streetcar route was converted into a bus route, operated ...
The New York City Interborough Railway was a streetcar transit system chartered in 1902 to construct feeder lines to serve Interborough Rapid Transit's subway and elevated stations in the Bronx. [1] The streetcar lines were given permission to cross the Harlem River to gain access to the Manhattan lines. The railway opened for business in 1906 ...