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From a Nickel to a Token : The Journey from Board of Transportation to MTA /
"Chronicle of twenty specific events in the history of New York's mass transit systems between 1940 and 1968, including large numbers of rare photos. 1940 to 1968 was chosen because those years bracket two sea change events - the June 1940 subway unification, and the March 1968 inception o...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Empire State Edition,
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Sparberg, Andrew J., |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a From a Nickel to a Token : |b The Journey from Board of Transportation to MTA / |c Andrew J. Sparberg. |
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| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2015 | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 1940: unification: IRT and BMT join the IND, creating one subway system -- 1941: a strike and a pioneering labor agreement -- 1941: Dyre Avenue subway extension opens -- 1941-1948: Third Avenue transit: rails to rubber -- 1944 and 1950: goodbye to Brooklyn Bridge rails -- 1947-1948: private to public bus operations -- 1948: goodbye to the nickel -- 1947-1956: final decade for Brooklyn trolleys -- 1950: farewell, Lexington Avenue -- 1953-1968: The TA, tokens, and TWU triumphant -- 1953: last double-deck buses operate on Fifth Avenue -- 1954-1956: The BMT and IND begin a courtship -- 1955: sunshine returns to Third Avenue -- 1956: Fifth Avenue coach becomes number one -- 1957-1959: IRT West Side improvement -- 1962: Fifth Avenue coach suddenly disappears -- 1964: World's Fair, Blue Subways, stainless steel subways -- 1966: Mike Quill's last hurrah -- 1967: The BMT and IND marry forever -- 1968: The MTA is created and express buses appear. | |
| 520 | |a "Chronicle of twenty specific events in the history of New York's mass transit systems between 1940 and 1968, including large numbers of rare photos. 1940 to 1968 was chosen because those years bracket two sea change events - the June 1940 subway unification, and the March 1968 inception of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)"--Provided by publisher | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Infrastructure. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Transports publics |z New York (État) |z New York |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Transportation |z New York (State) |z New York |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Local transit |z New York (State) |z New York |x History. | |
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