From: Phil.Kane@nov.shmovz.ka.pop   
      
   On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 18:24:13 +0000 (UTC), John Levine    
   wrote:   
      
   >All true.  Also, as the MTA's web site notes, the numbers aren't   
   >comparable because there weren't free transfers like there are now.   
   >If your trip took you on different lines, that would often count as   
   >two trips then, while with Metrocards it's one trip now.   
      
   Even then there were free transfers between systems of subway lines at   
   many points.  We used them quite often.  The one that we really   
   wanted, though - IRT Junius Street to BMT Livonia Avenue - didn't   
   exist and AFAIK never existed until the advent of the MetroCard --   
   assuming that the pedestrian bridge over the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch   
   tracks - colloquially called "rape alley" - was still available.  I've   
   heard that it was either closed or torn down.  All of us east of the   
   tracks used it to get to Straus  JHS on the west side, and vice versa   
   for HS students on the west side getting to Thomas Jefferson HS on the   
   east side.  All gone now.   
      
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