Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-05

On a Proposed New Route for the
shore Line Railroad that Will DO
Away with a Dozen Dangerous
Grade Crossings In Fair Haven and
the Annex.
That question of grade crossings will
ever be serious one so long as even the
most remote country road runs across .
railroad track. The people in Fair Haven
have agitated the matter, discussed it
from every standpoint, and become more
insistent in their petitions to the railroad
company as one and another victim has
been added to the list of slaughtered at
some of those deadly crossings in the An
mex on this side the Quinnipiac river. The
railroad company, too, has felt the true
weight of the matter and has been giving
hand with some speed to obviate the diff
ficulty, but danger still turks at many q
corner. Another way for obyiating the
trouble has. recently BEEN preached and
discussed among. number of the leading
people of Fair Haven and the matter laid
for consideration before the directors of
the Consolidated road, and the plan is
this: Change the route of the Shore Line
road. Not by ploughing through in q
straight line the high ridge of hills, which
would prove an enormous undertaking,
necessitating tunnels, deep cuts, blasting,
etc., which would cost millions.
The way out of the difficulty suggested
is that the route make detour the other
way and follow out on the Air Line track
across the Air Line bridge over the Quin-
nipiac river, then curve around across the
meadows and come out at East Haven as
hnfora hv ro1to hail Soma diatanna ha-
yond Fair Haven heights. The advan-
tages of this route are numerous for the
railroad company as well as the Fair Ha-
ven public. In the first place it will do
away with every grade crossing, and then
Ferry, Atwater, Clay, Lombard and vari-
GUS other streets will not be so much
feared and the company will be saved the
great trouble and expense. It will make
it possible to remove that unsightly
old bridge over the Quinnipiac which has
been an eyesore so long to Fair Haven
the fine view up the river and the beauti-
full landscape for miles beyond. The
The company will be obliged before long
to fix over this bridge or more probably
build an expensive new one. The expense
of making the proposed route would be
comparatively light, no deep cutting
being necessary and the distance barely a
mile more to East Haven depot, where it
would come out. The company will have
to build another bridge any way soon
where the Air Line crosses the Quinnipiac
and accommodations could easily be made
at the same time for Shore Line accommo-
dations and from that point run their
tracks across the meadows MS mentioned
This plan seems feasible and has been
strongly advocated to the company. Tho
railroad company has the question IN
hand, and Consolidated road surveyors,
we learn from one of our prominent citi-
zens, are now at work surveying this pro-
posed route. If the Shore Line continued
on its present route, the company will no
doubt be obliged to keep fagmen at all the
exposed and dangerous crossings By the
route talked of as above, only one grade
crossing, and that one very little used,
will be encountered, instead of about a
dozen by the present route. A new Air
Line bridge will ere long have to be built
and it is understood that the railroad
company talks of filling in the whole
length of the Qninnipiac meadows where
the present bridge runs.