. The Street railway journal . voided tofacilitate the handling of traffic. Paralleling Fulton Street between the Bor-ough Hall and Flatbush Avenue, as the firststreet to the south, is Livingston Street, a nar-row thoroughfare upon which back many ofthe large Fulton Street stores. The onlysolution of the problem seemed to be to placetracks on this street and thus parallel FultonStreet, or in other words double the abilityto handle cars between the Borough Hall andFlatbush Avenue. To this end it was de-cided if possible to secure from the city theright to build a double track line on Livings-to
. The Street railway journal . voided tofacilitate the handling of traffic. Paralleling Fulton Street between the Bor-ough Hall and Flatbush Avenue, as the firststreet to the south, is Livingston Street, a nar-row thoroughfare upon which back many ofthe large Fulton Street stores. The onlysolution of the problem seemed to be to placetracks on this street and thus parallel FultonStreet, or in other words double the abilityto handle cars between the Borough Hall andFlatbush Avenue. To this end it was de-cided if possible to secure from the city theright to build a double track line on Livings-ton Street after the widening of that thor-oughfare from 40 ft. to 80 ft. by the city as a public improve-ment had been accomplished. This right was secured bya special franchise in the name of the Nassau ElectricRailway Company purchased from the city at auction, theterms of which were determined after many conferencesbetween city, borough and railroad officers and a fixedcompensation made for the use of this street. A line has. MAP SHOWING LINES FEEDING INTO FULTON STREET WHICHCAUSE CONGESTION tage of in the evening to run cars over the Gold Streettracks into Willoughby Street, looping the Borough Halland returning to Fulton Street to accommodate Brooklynretail stores. Willoughby Street, however, running as itdoes into Fulton Street at the angle mentioned, is severalblocks from Fulton at Gold Street, which is below and op-posite to Flatbush Avenue on the north side of Fulton 986 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXX. No. 20. Street, and it thus had the disadvantage of introducing theelement of uncertainty among the passengers and added tothe complexity of the complicated crossing at Fulton, Wil-loughby and Adams Streets, the layout of which is shownin the accompanying map of the tracks near the BoroughHall. In this connection it is of interest to refer to the mapof the track layout in the vicinity of the Borough will be noted that there is a very complicated crossingjust ab
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