New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-31
NEW ARRANGEMEYTS FoR PASSENGERS.
HOW THE BARNEsMARTIN. Plans WILL BE
CARRIED oUT-THE NEW STREET Rail-
moan GrATION


As soon as the new offices of the Bridge, ut
Washington and Nassau SITS, an ready for use
the building now occupied by de trustees, en-
gineers, clerks and others, in Ssndsst.. will b.
demolished 10 make room for additional tracks
which win be built in carrying out the Barnes
Martin plans for increasing the facilities for
travel. Superintendent Martin described the new
Brooklyn platform to Tribune reporter day or
two ago. He said "1hs new platforms at the
Brooklyn terminus win extend from Sands-st TO
High-st4, and the present station arrangements
will be done away with All trains Will stop
and start on the south side Of Sands-st4 There
will be two long platforms, one for outgoing and
the other for incoming passengers. There win be
four tracks, one on either side Of eneh platform
Trains will arrive and depart alternately from
either side thus nearly doubling the carrying
capacity Of the Bridge. theoretically, it would
exactly double H. hut in the practical working
there win be little loss. But the great diff
Guilty at present, which is TO unload the paSsen-
gers from one train so as to get 10 out Of the WY
for the next. viii be done away with. for each
second train will he switched to the opposite eide
OF the platform for incoming passengers.
The arrangements for receiving passengers will
also be Tar more complete than at present Now
we receive passengers from the street and the
Union Elevated road ct the rear end of the train
those from the Brooklyn Elevated in the middle,
and when the new gallery from the Kings County
road across the tracks overhead is completed next
Tuesday, the passengers by that route will come
ON the platform at the forward end Of the train
In the new station there will be an entrance for
passengers from the SURFACE roads and from the
streets in the middle Of The block, the ticket
Offices being on either side, and the passengers will
ascend staircases and take the cars from the mid
ale of the platform. At the north end the Union
Road passengers viii take the Bridge cara, turning
10 the right instead Of the left as now In coming
down from the Sands-st station The Kings
County passengers will come 10 the platform at
the HIRhst end, and so they all will be well dis
tributed When they leave the trains they will
divide in the same way. The Kings County road
will have its station at High and Fulton sts.,
and gallery will be built TO the Bridge platform.
station nc that point will enable them 20 stop all
trains there and avoid the delay OF having 10
switch the trains and back into the Bridge sta
ton when coming up from the ferry. The new
facilities win greatly aid us in handling the great
mass OF people who cross the Bridge in the cars
IN the busy hours
In regard TO the new offices Mr.. Martin sald
that they would be pleasanter TO WORK ~ man ma
those now In use, but not quite 50 conyenient.
The noise OF the trains is exceedingly uisfncuns
In the Sands-st. building. IL Is not expccted
that the new quarters win be occupied oe'ofe
- he work Of tearing down the old Sands Street