The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-07-14

The NEW RAILROAD PRoJECT.-There seems
to be desire on the part of our Common Council,
TO establish railroads in streets where Is almost
impossible that any such thing can be located, on
account, in some cases, Of the narrowness of the
street, and in other cases, account of the great
use made of the street by all the people who use
horses and vehicles; il being, although, wide con-
tinuay filled with vehicles of all descriptions, and
thus rendered impractcable for the uses and pur-
poses of a railroad Now, to run railroad through
very narrow street, is TO give the use of that
street TO person or company, to the exclusion of
those who have paid for its being built, and who
have kept II in repair ever since it was fret con-
structed, and to the annoyance, and in many cases
the destruction, of those who live along the liue;
and TO lay one in wide street that has been used
for thoroughfare, is to drive those who have been
in the habit of travelling in such street, with their
CABS, coaches, carts, trucks, handcarts, pri vate
carriages, and even omnibusses, (the hardest of
all 10 drive out of street,) to seek some other
thoroughfare in which they can travel in safety.
Thus it is plain enough, that when they are
driven out OF one street they will go into another;
and if one is made empty by the establishment of a
rarosd, they will go into another ND fill that and
so what is made in meal by such measure Ito use
a homey phrase) is lost in nalt-because one
street is cleared and another is crammed. Much
complaint is made Of the extremely crowded state
of Broadway, below the Park, by the very persons
who clamor for railroads in the sreets-a DISPOSE
ton Of the highway, which was originally open
ed, and by law intended, for the use of the
whole people, that is, in the opinion of
many persons learned in such matters, that
seems TO be not only unwise, but extremely une-
quail in its operaon-as though q railroad would
relieve that great thoroughfare of the plethora with
which it is affected, unless railroad were laid
in il.
The whole Of the new system, which some mo-
ney loving and money making man would foist
upon us, rs wrong. Before robbing the people Of
the use Of their highways and bye-ways, by laying
rails in them, they sheud try what virtue there is
in new avenues. Much has been said about the
rapid growth Of the western side Of our city far
out Fiteth street, and it is said that carts and all
sorts of wheeled vehicles will travel in Broadway
when going north, until they come to the most con-
venent route to Hudson street, which is Chambers
street; and that, therefore, Broadway is filled up
and obstructcd below that point to such extent
as to render il at certain times of day impossible.
There is a remedy for this crying evil, and that
is TO open and extend Hudson street southwark
from its present termination at Chambers street, in
a straight line from Fourteenth street through to
broadway, which it will strike at the corner of
Cour;landt street, preserving the width of that
beautiful road to that point and then the city will
be blessed with an avenue which will swallow up
the travel of the whole Of the city west Of Broad
way, and relieve that thoroughfare more than al
the railroads that be built, far from il to
IL, in fifty years. We are told, moreover, that the
people owning property and living along the line of
Hudson street, will pay for this most desirable inn
provement out of their own pockets. VIII our
worthy city fathers look to this important matter