New-York tribune., 1903-01-24
NO REST IN BRO4DWAY.
Merchants Committee ContT0nts NJ.
S. X. soiM Figures.
PARSONS ON HERALD SQUARE SUBWAY

A preliminary report of the special engineering
and sanitation committee of the Merchants Asso-
citation. presented to the association yesterday,
gives figures to show that the number OF cars an
hour at congested points is great the es-
innate by the officials of the Interurban Street
Railway Company.
After citing the statement of the company that
sI5 cars an hour have passed az Thirty-fourth-st.
Broadway and Sixth-ave.. surface lines and
that 731 is the normal number report gives
hgures from observations said to have been made
at this point. showing that on January 16 IL. 10
and 20. not more than i92 passed any day be-
tween and p. 1t is asserted that delays were
not sufficient TO cause this lack CT efficient service
From this the report argues that the streetcar
lines are not being TO the limit set Dy the off,
GERS of the operating company
At the hour. is asserted. only 2s4 cars
passed at Fifty-ninth-st. and Columbus-ave- on
January 1s; 2s1 Sixth-ave. and Twenty third-st,
January 19; IA Fourth-ave and Astor Place,
January Il. and 4l6 Fifty -ninthst. and Eighth
ave, from i55 TO 555 p. m. January IS.
The committee recommended better service on the
Second. Third Seventh and Eighthave. lines. shell
ters for passengers in Fifty-ninth-st. at Seventh
and Eighth aves.; at Seventy-frst-st- and Broad
way: ths removal Of unused. unnecessary cartracks
the extension of the color scheme. TO distinguish
different lines better police regulation of trucking
and traffic. electric line across Manhattan at
Eighty-sixth-st and better sanitation and ventiia-
tion OF
For regulating traffic the committee recommends
the adoption Of the so-called rules of the road or
the Rider and Driver Association, with some ex-
ceptions and makes the following recommendations
for Broadway below Fifty-ninth-st.:
No empty or idle vehicle of any kind shall re-
main standing in Broadway.
Heavy traffic to keep to the extreme right or
curb light traffic the tracks
Drivers to tracks only when balance or the
street. TO the right is occupied. -.
LEFT ct Neh''ie 0'er'ak'ns a"0'heF sfa'' pass 10 -"
When a vehicle discharges passengers or freight
and must remain In the neighborhood, IT must move
TO the side street.
Vehicles occupying the track for any purpose
must leave it at the first opportunity
The committee reports against turning the
Broadway east and west along Fifty-ninth-
St. against turning the Lexing gton-ave. cars from
Broadway at Fourteenth-st. instead Of Twenty
third-st. against requiring vestibued cars against
issuing transfers at all junction points, and pre-
venting, at present passengers from standing be-
tween the seats of open cars.
The report makes mention of the subway for
Broadway at Herald Square suggested by the
State Railroad Commissioners at the hearing
Thursday In regard to this proposed subway,
William Barclay Parsons. chief engineer of the
Rapid Transit Commission. said yesterday:
SQuare-the erosstoWn Pennsylvania tunnel and the
Broadway branch of the rapid transit tunnel, so
there would apparently be No room for these sug,
gested sunken The rapid transit tunnel Will
have a station and conenction with the Pennsyl-
Yania tunnel and will come too near the surface
TO allow above X and below the street
level. Moreover. such tunnel as proposed would
have go at least Il feet to get below the
trolley slots OF the surface lines. and drop and
of Il feet in the space of two city blocks
4o0 feet-means an extremely steep grade.