New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-24
Plans FOR SHORE ROAD.
IT WaI at Once Be Widened to
Tuenty-four Feet Throughout.

TIE Shore Road. which, when compieteo acc0to-
ING 10 the original pans, Will be one o. the "'es'
0r!yeIrays and parklyoys in the country is 10 DC
xvidoned Between Bay Ridge-ave. and Eighty
nintb-st. TO a width Of not less than twenty
s,,,r feet Including four feet Of gutter ms IN
movement which has been needed ever since me
Shore Road was built, has become Imperative
since the advent OF swiftly moving autohoOlies'
The present roadway is in some places only tweIVe
.est wide and in many places does net exceed NJ
..en feet Some Of the narrowest places are at
ourving stretches, where the liability OF ace'oeht
IS ..rcct The sudden swerying Of an autoTnoohe
might se:d II down the steep ernoankIneht 10
posslble Death 20: its occupants
When Park Commissioner n J. KENNEDY mao
been IN the ofnce long enough TO look around. he
6ecieed that one Of the most urgent Improvements
US tie widening % the Shore Road. The original
;lans call for roadway OF from th;rty-ave 10 fifty
cect wide. TIRE te-rGoing and parking Of the land
down 20 tbs shore. where there should be a sea
wa erd a promenade and bicycle path. But these
Mans can for al expenditure OF 81 least ASo.Oo0'
n..c It did not seem possible 10 get that amount out
O. the Board O. Estimate this year SO Commits
si-.cr KcrneGy had his engineers prepare spech-
o,t.ras for widening OF the roadway that should
aaEvrer the purposes of safety. and at the same
t!ale sac,.:a be in line with the ultimate improve
raent.
1t is estimated that about $4,000 win be required
co- this work BIDS have already been called for
and WI! be opened next Thursday If they are
satisfactory. and the contract is let al once work
HaL proha bly, begin in two weeks from that time.
The contractor VIII hare ninety working days, or
about foU- calendar months, 20 complete the job
so Il ought TO be done about the middle Of De-
ecsaber.
Tie sAoTe Roa6. which extends from sixty-sixth-
st. % Fort Ea.nlltoa-aye., has always been one
&C tire most popular in Brooklyn. Now that e.
cenaection has been, by Of a cut through
Inc Fort Hamilton reservation. secured with
cropsey-ave and the roads leading 10 Bath Beach
ana Coney Island ard Twenty-second-ave and the
Ocean Parkway the Shore Road will probably be
Used more than ever. -eslas always been kept in
good condition but the narrow places, scarcely
broad lane. have always been a menace
Many slight accidents have occurred at these
points. AID il has been miracle that some catas-
uoDhe Las been avoided Through some one
STUPIDITY lamppost placed The edge OF The
roadway where IL Was the narrowest. auto
iis occupants were thrown in al directions Out
not seriously hurt Inc post was not replaced.
from twenty-five sepenty-nNe ieet. inc inter
srowa NliE trees and thick nndefb!usa' he
saoTe IS alternately ROCKY and sandy. Looking out
The 5i liners and Smaller cfaft as tSeI Sss IN IN
ana out the Na-rows or lie OF Quarantine close
range maze impressive ana interesting picture.
1he Only WIGS PAGES in the Eoeaaay at present
Sluss country rouse, al Eighty-iit th-sI-, and
the Fort Hamilton terminus Near the latter place.
at Fourth-are.. the oash4ng OF the wares has worn
cosainss.ose Kennedy has decided 10 build ''-a
hign retaining wal! here al cost Of about s6.eV0
places require the building OF 2 riprap retaining
wall and The filing IN back OF St. When the rosG-
way IS w1dened 10 nifty feet and the Permanent
retaining wall constructed the riprap wal will hs
covered up. The present work Will. however be
just much progress toward the colnpIetion az
lie ta plan, and It's cost be taken out OF the
original estimate. "
i Il possible TIA, before the completion of the
widening the Board Of Estimate may be induced
10 appropriate the money necessary TO completes
the Shore Road according 10 the original Mans n
would furnish drive OF beauty. The origI1
nal plans called Tor q promenade of sixteen fse-
enc q bicycle path OF twenty feet down AZ the
ehore line. As the decline in popularity OF The
cscyc has rendered sQch path unnecsssarv a.
Is now suggested that this twenty feet and sixty
feet additional, taken from the ernbankrnenf he
Used 10 build speedway There is no other nlacs
81 Brooklyn where speedway could be built Will
out having streets crossing *. Here al the edge
q the Sarrows one OF the grandest speedwavs 1n
the original estimate ~ FSV'SS' "
As the plans for the Shore Road are 70 he car
ried out ultimately il might prove OF great hen
snt 70 push them through now that the road IS 10
ton OF securing so large auAropriation now