New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29
TO HEAR PUBLIC CHOICE.
Rapid TRANSIT ROUTES.
Metropolitan Pleased by Ne5c Plans
of Com mission.
PROPOSED NEW SUBWAY ROUTES.


South from One-hundred- and forty-ninth-st at n
sunction with the present subway. along Morris TO
Third AVE.. diagonally under the Harlem Le1ing-
ton-ave-. thence south under LeNington-ave FIf-
feminist, west TO Union square, broadway thence
south to ChAmbers-st.. Park Row. under pri-
property 90 MilIiam-st. south Broad-st.. to
Soufh-st.. Battery Place. Swinging north. new
route goes from Battery Place to Greenwich-st..
Broadway, to Washington Square. under private
property TO Grcenwich-ave, Seventh-ave., up
snsh-nve to Forty-sccond-st connecting with line Of
present subway.
small line. dIve-EinE from 1e1ington-ave. at
about Forty ATHEIST running under private property
end connecting with she present subway Mt FOrtysec
ood-st. and FOurfh-ave.
crOsstOwn line. under Thirty -fourth-st. connect
ing the LcEingtOnavc. line with the seventh-ave line
In Brooklyn the route starts from Fort HamiI
running under Fourth-ave. FIatbush-ave under
Tlatbush-nve. TO the proposed plaza of the Man
haitian Bridge. the bridge. under CanaI-st.,
Cenre-st. connecting with line OF present subway.
The Rapid Transit Commission yesterday after
noon received from its plan and scope committee
proposed routes for subways in Manhattan and
Brooklyn on the lines outlined in The Tribune last
week. The Manhattan route is almost identical
with that laid down by the Metropolitan's interests
IN the letter to the commission some time ago
ty Thomas r. Ryan.
The commission appointed public hearing for
Thursday. May j. and President Orr made spe-
oal request Of the newspapers that the hearing be
widely advertised. he and his colleagues desired
that the discussion be full and fair.
The route recommended by President Orr. Con-
troller Irout and Charles Stewart Smith pleases
the Metropolitan interests Thomas F. Ryan. when
asked about ii last night. said:
The routes announced by the Rapid Transit Com
mission are comprehensive and entirely sausiac-
tory TO the metropolitan interests Ihey VIII en-
eole US 10 ofer 70 the public me acNanISee %
The Metropolitan Street Railway operates three
hundred miles Of surface road on Manhattan Isl
rev tunnel is let 10 the Metropolitan Interests they
the surface system, that the passenger can take
take the tunnel train to the station nearest his
oestlnauon aLG conllsIe MS J1ci . Il a. SS-,ii
have the Of the surface lines east and west as
cents viii III be the full charge for any continuous
"trip Any good contractor can build a tunnel ana
any competent railroad run tunnel ram
road but the value the public OF additional rapid
transit routes must be their connections and the
tween the various sections Of the city 5000 -
the public by enacting precisely the legislation
Rapjd Transit Commission asked for The way is
pow open 10 the fulfilment Of the hope winch has
NeW-York that a and independent line OF I'm
Terground rapid transit would be Immediately
Started. with the transfer advantages described.
In its report to the commission the plan and
scope committee says IN part:
In dealing with the general subject your com
tnittee has kept in view these fundaental princi5
be so designed as 10 meet present demonstrated
- flt15rei M second Thai S2cb routes sbould
be capable of construction and operation indie
rendently Of the subway under construction
81 TO encourage competition by various in
terests.
This large scheme Of building. II approved. should
not he offered bidders entirety. On the
eontrary, IL Is the judgment of your committee
that II would be essential TO invite BIDS upon II IN
Eeparare sections. Bidders might be al
lowed 10 bid for any OF the sections.
The board should reserve the right to award con-
tracts Cor o sections. or suspend the
construction OF any section until such time as the
increase Of traffic might establish the necessity
o. additional route.
IN particular the committee believes that more
stringent requirements for maintaining traffic and
avoiding extensive disturbances of the surface OF
the streets in the main thoroughfares OF the city,
adopted. and also that stringent and satisfactory
provisions in relation 10 the character and fire.
uuency Of the service to be given may properly
De inserted in the leasing parts Of the contracts
construction OF additional subways arrangements
should he made that the entrances to the sta
lions may be private property and not upon the
streets. thus avoiding the impeding Of traffic on
the already obstructed sidewalks
Your committee is strongly OF the opinion mat
she statutory exemption Of the contractor from
taxation in respect 10 his interest under the
tract and IN the rolling stock and other
equipment OF the road should no longer be allowed
This exemption was not part or the original rapid
transit scheme and necessarily inserted in
order make the arrangement more attra ctive
70 possible bidders at time when without il. II
seemed impossible 10 get any bidder.
Il has always been the desire Of the board. and
been the policy Of the board. provide for pipe
galleries 10 accommodate pipes. wires. sewers and
other subsurface structures.
Here follows a review Of the commissions ef-
forts 10 provide pipe galleries and the city's
q the project in Elm-st.. in 1900