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service by getting a mulipnoity OF routes
Iatner than duplication OF facilities ON the
same same routes. The present plans accom-
Rhsn s tnis result, except on the line south OF
cation OF routes seems to be unavoidable,
provided that the new route Ia TO be kept
as near Broadway as possible In order 10
meet the tIaffio demands. East Of West
broadway the streets are too narrow to ,,e
used Tor railway purposes.
The West Side line, as laid out, would
connect with the new station Of the Pennsyl-
Yanla Railroad facing on Seventh avenue.
should the Interborough Rapid Trandt
company be awarded the contract and not
s % oidder for the line under Thirty-fourth
street, this latter route could then be made
use Of by the company proposing moving
platform. which could become a bidder
Tor this portion Of the general plan.
osti, In the plan proposed by the New York
NY U.X haiiway "a. Company a orosstown line
Broadway to West Broadway. In the plan
submitted herewith this has been omitted.
as involving very serious and expensive
construction features in order TO provide
aproper junction at West Broadway and also
with the line under Broadway. The plans,
however, could be amended 90 as to include
this link II the board should deem 1t proper.
SECTIONAL BIDS
In order to provide for division Of these
plans, so as TO accommodate various bidders,
the whole scheme has been divided into the
following sections, With the approximate
lengths:
From Battery Park 70 Lexington avenue
street 70 Morris avenue. ui inol"dins S III ter
From lcEfi: I'sS syseSs seus to oenneo. with the
subway l a. East lssth street, 2.ooo feet.
From Thirty-fourfth. .VSIa street ia and Seventh
svenue to connect with the present subway
between Forty-second and Forty-sixthstreets.
e II 3ssy. street and Lexington avenue
From 2 connection with the present sub
second street to Lexington avenue at Forty
fourth street, 1000 feet.
The total length Of all the above lines 10
$500 feet or 1915 miles.
sUBwArs IN BBooKLYN.
The board, by special resolution, directed
me to lay out line extending from Fort
Hamilton under Fourth avenue to Flatbush
avenue, and thence under Flatbush avenue
to and across the Manhattan Bridge to the
terminus Of the said bridge in Manhattan.
out to the board that this route will be an
expensive one to build and is paralleled
its whole length by an elevated railway
either on the adjacent street or imme-
diately above it and on reaching. Man
haitian will not be able to provide through
facilities except by transfer.
Should it be decided to build a subway
line under Fourth avenue to Fort Hamilton
beg leave to call the attention OF the board
to an alternative Of the scheme, namely,
ton avenue, thence under Buttermilk Chan
mel to Governors Island, and under the
East River to Battery Park. and thence. II
desired, by tunnel under Greenwich street,
to connect with the low level loop at Bar
clay street This would provide a direct
through communication with South Brook
lyn.
OF the lines in the second category. those
which are extensions Of the existing SUBJ
way, lay before the board one in Brook
lyn and two in The Bronx. The line in
has already been provided at the Prospect
Park Plaza and extending thence easterly
under Eastern Parkway. This is
section Of Brooklyn to which the attention
of the board has already been directed
BRONX EXTENSIONS.
The lines in The Bronx are, first, an eI-
tension Of the present system from Kinge-
bridge northeriy along Broadway to Van
Cortlandt Park, Efforts have been made,
am informed. by the 1nterborough Rapid
Transit Company to arrange terms with the
New York Central TO use the Putnam d.
to Kingsbridge, but without satisfactory
results. 1t is desirable that the West Side
system should go TO Van Cortlandt Park.
and therefore suggest an extension Of the
subway system from Kingsbridge to the
park, but at this point necessarily by ele-
waited structure.
The second line in The Bronx is one ex-
tending the present subway system from
its terminus at lS0th street and the Boston
road. This portion Of the present system
Il - .rN, It,
north lies Bronx Park and that portion Of
Bronx Park nearest to II having been set
aside for the Geological Gardens. North
Of Bronx Park lies a section exte .ding to
Mount Vernon not now reached by any
"a pid transit lines.
Il is possible to extend the present
elevated structure over Boston road to
Bronx Park and then to take advantage Of
the topography Of the ground to grade the
surface OF Bronx Park at its southerly end
so as to avoid any elevated structure in
Bronx Park, and by building the railway
on a descending gradient TO pass beneath
the roadway leading from the principal en-
trance on the Boston road and thence be-
meath the surface OF the park to it's northerly
limits at the Bronx River. The river will
thence the railway will again be taken
under ground beneath the Pelham Park
way and by making use Of private property
and suitable incline to pass from the sub
way to elevated and 80 over the White
Plains road to the city line.
BRONX PARK FACULTIES
I would especially direct the attention Of |
he board to this line. the details Of which |
should be carefully considered. The area
II Bronx Park is large, and even that por- |
ion OF it comprising the Geological Gar |
lens covers an area whose length north |
md south is about one mile. The only |
means Of reaching the park conveniently |
or the public is the Harlem Railway line to
'ordham station and thence by long walk
O Bronx Park; secondly. by the subway |
ystem to the Boston road, the terminus Of
which is from the centre of the Geological
gardens; thirdly, by the surface cars. which
re obviously O slow means OF progress on
ccount of the distance to be covered
II the park IL not to be invaded by a
ailway the general public will be compelled
O take one Of tbs three mentioned lines OF
and either submit to a
ong time in travel by the surface oars or
,e compelled to walk long distance from
ither OF the rapid transit lines. AS you
will see by the detail plans il ID possible to
,uild a railway. which, for the greater part
4 it's length, will be underground, and the
mall portion OF it's length where exposed
an be 90 arranged as to be entirely hidden
rom view by trees and ehrubbery.
The district north OF The Bronx needs
ABILITIES which can be furnished only by
line such as has been described or by a
more circliitous route to the east OF Bronx
PARK. Easterly Of the present system no
1,,tn hoe boan suppaated In The Rnonr