The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-11
NEWEST BRIDGE TRANSIT PLAN
WOULD MAKE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
4 DOUBLE.DECkER,
Loop the Elevated Trains Across the River
to Manhattan by the Newer Structure
and Mako Park Of the Bridge Plaza
This Commissioner LindenthsYs Idea.

Loop the Elevated Trains Across the River
to Manhattan by the Newer Structure
and Mako Park Of the Bridge Plaza
This Commissioner LindenthaIs Idea.
Bridge Commissioner Lindenthars plan
for connecting the East River bridges with
the existing surface and elevated railroads
on both sides Of the river was made public
yesterday by Mayor Low Mr.. Lindenthal
advises Transforming Brooklyn Bridge into
double-decker. The running of the
trolley cars on the roadway, he says, not
only impedes the movement Of trucks, but
is overstraining the bridge floor construc-
ton. which, in consequence requires con-
slant and extensive repairs
When the Bridge was built, Mr. Linden
thai says. the placing Of trolley tracks on
the roadway was not foreseen and the
stiftening system Of the suspended part
is not adapted for the exigencies OF the
elevated and trolley car traffic A conges-
ton Of cars on any one track is likely to
rupture the stiffening trusses As soon as
possible the suspended structure and floor
system Of the Bridge must be replaced
by one Of adequate capacity and rigidity
for traffic requirements. 1t will require
two decks.
The elevated tracks can then be put on
an upper deck and the trolley tracks on the
lower deck in the space now occupied by
the Bridge cars.
At the Manhattan end provision will
be made in the plans for the new City Hall
station for terminal Of ten loops with a
space of forty feet between each loop.
That will probably give ample room for all
the trolley cars of the future. With the
additional bridges and the greater capacity
tra,fc will not grow in the future as it mas
In the last Ave years.
The Brooklyn Bridge will always have
to form part Of the elevated railroad
system connecting Brooklyn and Manhat-
tan, Mr.. Lindenthal says. The elevated
trains viii Be able to loop back over to
Hail station. K the ' EooS KY A end ths
elevated tracks will connect with those
on Fulton street, and those leading to Flat
bush and Myrtle avenues. The present
unsightly elevated structures on the Plaza
In Brooklyn will be entirely removed, and
the cleared space converted into park.
The present Bridge station will then front
station.
With regard 10 the Manhattan Bridge
Mr.. Lindenthal proposes that the Flat bush
avenue railroad be continued on the new
avenue that will be laid out as an approach
to the new bridge, across the bridge and
extending thence as an elevated railroad
to the North River. This crosstown ele
Third, Sixth and Ninth avenue elevated
roads in Manhattan, with transfer sta
tions at points Of intersection.
Passengers from any part Of Manhat-
tan, north OF SOUTH" the Commits sioner
explains, will thus reach any part OF Brook
lyn over any OF the existing elevated lines.
The Commissioner suggests also that
be continued over the bridge on the south
erly pair Of tracks. On the Manhattan
side these tracks can turn of into Division
street, now occupied by the Second avenue
elevated structure, which it ia proposed to
remove, the elevated railroad to continue
down Division street, cross the Third and
Second avenue lines at Chatham Square,
and continue on second deck down Park
row into the proposed new City Hall station.
in this station the tracks will be on the
came level with the tracks on the Brooklyn
Bridge. The elevated railroad, therefore,
would form a complete loop from Fulton
street (Brooklyn) over the Manhattan
Bridge ana BACK over the Brooklyn Bridge
to Fulton street The Myrtle avenue line,
now running to the Brooklyn Bridge, should
connect with the Flatbush avenue line,
cross the Manhattan Bridge and return
back over the Brooklyn Bridge"
As TO the williamsburg Bridge Mr.. Lin
denthal suggests plans for connecting
the trolley tracks in Williamsburg with
the surface and elevated roads in this
borough but he advocates also the in
Sailing OF the moving platform scheme,
which is being considered by the Rapid
Transit Commissioners. 1t il proposed to
run this moving platform over the bridge
from the Williamsburg end under Delaney
street to the Bowery. and thence under
the Bowery, Park Row and Nassau street
to the Battery.
This platform, Mr. Lindenthal says,
would have a capacity Of 10000 passengers
an hour and would suffice for the accomoda-
ton OF passenger traffic between lower
Manhattan and Williamsburg for a long
time to come.
The elevated railroad tracks on the Black
wells Island Bridge, Mr.. Lindenthal sug-
gests, should be connected in Manhattan
with the Second avenue elevated system,
by means Of two stub tracks, and on the
Queens side a similar spur should be built
to Join the elevated railroad either at
Thompson or Jackson avenues.
The report was transmitted by Mayor
Low to the Rapid Transit Commission.