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Chief Engineer William Barclay Parsons and the NYC Subway. Founded in 1885 in New York City by civil engineer William Barclay Parsons, among Parsons Brinckerhoff's earliest projects was the original IRT line of the New York City Subway, designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff and opened in 1904. [7]
The IRT Flushing Line would be extended eastward to Bell Boulevard in Bayside via Main Street, Kissena Boulevard, and Northern Boulevard. At Roosevelt Avenue a branch would be constructed off the IRT Flushing Line to Jamaica. Only some of Hylan's planned lines were built to completion. Completed lines included: [9] [11] [12]
By August 2017, preliminary work on the line was underway, [146]: 48 [151] and design of the project was being performed by Phase 2 Partnership, a joint venture of Parsons-Brinckerhoff and STV. [152] The EIS and design were finished in 2018. [146]: 46 In July 2018, the MTA published a Supplemental Environmental Assessment for the SAS FEIS.
The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line from Times Square to Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street; The IRT Lenox Avenue Line from 96th Street to 145th Street; The IRT White Plains Road Line from 142nd Street Junction to 180th Street–Bronx Park; Planning for a rapid transit line in New York City started in 1894 with the enactment of the Rapid ...
The IRT Powerhouse An old IRT sign remains at Wall Street station. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the private operator of New York City's original underground subway line that opened in 1904, as well as earlier elevated railways and additional rapid transit lines in New York City. [2]
Lieutenant Colonel Parsons in France, October 1918. Parsons worked for the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad from 1882 through 1885. He wrote Turnouts; Exact Formulae for Their Determination (1884) and Track, A Complete Manual of Maintenance of Way (1886) which both addressed railroad problems, and this interest in rail transportation continued throughout his life.
After the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)'s original line opened as far as Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, the New York City government began planning new lines.As early as 1903, William Barclay Parsons, chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission, had proposed constructing a four-track extension of the IRT line under Flatbush Avenue, running southeast from Atlantic Avenue to Grand ...
Henry M. Brinckerhoff in "The Street railway journal" (1884) Henry M. Brinckerhoff (1868–1949) was a pioneering highway engineer who in 1906 partnered with William Barclay Parsons to found what would eventually be known as Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the largest transportation, planning and engineering companies in the United States. [1]