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- From: jtbell@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jon Bell)
- Subject: Re: Staten Island Rapid Transit
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.234553.11593@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Presbyterian College, Clinton SC
- References: <24028@galaxy.ucr.edu> <1992Nov19.192446.5862@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:45:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.192446.5862@news.columbia.edu> brennan@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Joseph Brennan) writes:
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- >Jon Bell summarized but with some inaccuracy. SIRT is operated by its
- >own public agency, the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority,
- >controlled by the MTA. The electric MUs are slightly modified R44
- >subway cars (some details had to be changed to meet ICC standards--
- >not sure what).
-
- Thanks for the corrections and the many other interesting details.
- After I posted, I remembered the subway-style seating and realized that
- SIRT cars couldn't be the commuter-rail type. I _do_ remember them
- as looking different somehow from the usual subway stock, but it's been
- seven years now...
-
- Another interesting way to do an SIRT excursion is to take the subway
- to Bay Ridge (Brooklyn), then a bus over the Verazzano-Narrows Bridge,
- then the SIRT, and finally the ferry back to Manhattan.
-
- Jon Bell / Dept. of Physics & Comp. Sci. / Presbyterian College / Clinton SC
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