From: steveo@panix.com   
      
   Phil Kane   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   They're building a free transfer there now.  No, it never got   
   an out-of-system Metrocard transfer (but, as you perhaps mean,   
   unlimited holders can make it for no extra cost).   
      
   Here's the Eagle on the transfer construction:   
   http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/10/30/mta-finally-con   
   ect-l-and-3-lines-brownsville   
      
   There's a picture of the bridge that currently exists outside of   
   fare control (is that how you remember it, Phil?):   
   http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-pol-transf   
   r-east-new-york-subway-stations-article-1.2283534   
      
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