Passenger Transportation Service in the City of New York: A Report to the Merchant's Association of New York |
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34th street ADDENDUM avenue cars avenue line average speed brake Broadway line Canal street car lines car tracks cars per hour cent chapter five hundred closed cars commissioners conductor congested streets corporation cross crosstown and horse crosstown line crowded streets curb deck cars Desbrosses Street Ferry DIAGRAM double track double-deck cars electric cars elevated railroad enforce Engineering and Sanitation feet Ferry Harlem River headroom horse car improvement inches increased laws of eighteen Lexington avenue Liverpool loading and unloading Manhattan miles per hour number of cars number of passengers observations obstruction open cars operated ordinances overcrowding practicable present rail RAILROAD COMPANY recommended regulation roof routes rush hours seating capacity Second avenue line sengers single track single-deck cars Sixth avenue South Ferry stairway standing stations stops street car street railway subway surface cars tion tramway transfer transportation upper deck vehicles vehicular travel West Broadway York
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Page ix - If any vacancy happens by resignation or otherwise he shall, in the same manner, appoint an arbitrator for the residue of the term. If the senate shall not be in session at the time any vacancy shall occur or exist, the governor shall appoint an arbitrator to fill the vacancy, subject to the approval of the senate when convened.
Page xii - ... road and conducting its business is reasonable and expedient in order to promote the security, convenience and accommodation of the public...
Page xiv - ... temporarily of importance, shall be transported over the railroads in this state free of charge upon passes signed by the secretary of state and the commissioners shall have reimbursed to them the necessary traveling expenses and disbursements of themselves, their officers, clerks and experts, not exceeding in the aggregate nine hundred dollars per month.
Page xi - ... may take such proceedings as are authorized by the Code of Civil Procedure upon the like failure or refusal of a witness subpoenaed to attend the trial of a civil action before a court of record or a referee appointed by such court. The...
Page xiv - Article four of chapter five hundred and sixty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An act in relation to railroads, constituting chapter thirty-nine of the general laws...
Page x - The law also provides that the board ' shall have general supervision of all railroads and shall examine the same and keep informed as to their condition and the manner in which they are operated for the security and accommodation of the public and their compliance with the provisions of their charters and of law.
Page xiv - July first in each year, shall assess upon each of such corporations its proportion of such expenses, one-half in proportion to its net income for the fiscal year next preceding that in which the assessment is made, and onehalf in proportion to the length of its main road and branches...
Page 46 - Nos. 26 and 27, which give the number of vehicles found standing along the curbs on each block and at different hours during the day. These diagrams will be readily understood. An inspection of the Broadway diagrams for different periods during the day shows between what streets and at what time this nuisance assumes its greatest proportions. Some idea of its magnitude may be gathered from the fact that the total numbers of vehicles standing along the Broadway curbs on both sides between Battery...
Page xiii - ... copies of all contracts and agreements, leases or other engagements entered into by it with any person or corporation. The commissioners shall not give publicity to such information, contracts, agreements, leases or other engagements, if, in their judgment, the public interests do not require it, or the welfare and prosperity of railroad corporations of the state might be thereby injuriously affected.
Page x - ... and in default of giving such new security, their offices shall be deemed vacant. But the county shall never be made responsible for the acts of the sheriff. The governor may remove any officer, in this section mentioned, within the term for which he shall have been elected; giving to such officer a copy of the charges against him, and an opportunity of being heard in his defense.