The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-13
ROAD in SIGHT
Hearings on the Route Of
the Boulevard Branch
Completed.
70 CONNECT Us WITH TIE WEST
Work Will Begin in the Spring
But /. Will Require
Two Years.

The hearings on the route Of the pro-
posed branch road connecting the Hudson
Boulevard with Harrison, Kearny and the
borough of East Newark. have been
completed. and the final map will prob
ably be adopted at the next meeting OF
the Board of ~Freeholders on January 20,
After that it will be necessary to make
maps for fling and prepare plans for
specifications and construction. Engineer
Ediow Harrison said this morning that
operations on the construction of the
road would be begun in the early spring.
1t wilrst2ke 0 two years to construct
it, as the meadows win nave to be filled in
enc season and paved the next. The to-
tai cost of the road, it is estimated, will
be about $400, 900.
A number of streets and avenues in
Jersey City and the townships through
which the road will pass will be utilized.
These are. mainly, only so feet wide, but
most of them are already macadamized.
The roadway over the meadows will pc
100 feet wide, as it will be the main
t~horoughfare across the marshy waste
for at least the mex twenty years.
The branch road starts with Sip ave,
nue.. runs west TO Coroin avenue and
north 10 Broadway, west to Wallace ave
hue, tlltil uuueT the GcUllSyIsdilld II. L.
~trestle. then west and parallel with New
ark avenue to the HackenSack River,
crossing the present county bridge, II
will strike Harrison at Hamilton street
and run north on Davis avenue to Mid
land avenue and then north on Schuyler
avenue TO ~Stuyyesant avenue, passing the
entrance to Arlington Cemetery; thence
west to the top of the hill above the
Passaic River. 1t will still continue west
ward through the picturesque old schuyler
property to the northwestern corner OF
the county at the Belleviiie bridge.
From this point there is a connection on
Gran avenue and Hamilton avenue, to
the corner of Hamilton and Davis ave-
nues. The latter winds along the east
slope of the Arlington ridge, II affords
a splendid view across the HackenSack
Valley and is yet within sight of the
west slope of the city hill.
On the return by the Passaic drive a
magnificent view of the Passaic Valley
afforded. AT Belleville Bridge, which is
about seven miles from Sip avenue and
the Hudson Boulevard, first class roads
branch off into Bergen County and along
the Passaic River TO Montclalr, TO the
Oranges. and north to Passaic and Pater-
son. These localities at present can be
reached from this city only with peril to
life and limb, except by train.
The principal object in constructing the
road is twofold-to give people of this
county access by carriage or bicycle to
other parts of the State, and to let the
people from the other parts of the State
come into this county and see what Jer-
sey City has in the way OF improvements
AS it is now, it is easier for them TO
reach New York than to come through
the county except by train. Another inn
portant point is that the proposed branch
road will help to bind the east and west
ends more closely together and, put a
stop to all further talk about a%nnexing a
portion of the county to ESSEX.