New-York tribune., 1905-02-20
LOUD CALL FOR ELEVATED LOOP
SUCH CONNECTION BETWEEN MANHATTAN TER
j. MNALS OF BRIDGES WOULD EASE CRUSH
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Offers Lease-len Who
FaUor Plan for Relief

So obvious are the advantages offered by the
proposed elevated loop connection between the
Manhattan terminals OF the Brooklyn and Will
,arsburg bridges for relieving the congestion of
Messenger travel between Brooklyn and Man
haitian which has long been source of the
Greatest inconvenience and hardship that public
sentiment is likely to compel it's construction
without more needless delay Recommended by
sn the engineers and committees of citizens who
have made a study OF conditions the only
.sasble solution OF the problem. il is believed
that objections to il will to be felt.
cept on the part of those who are jealous of
the growth OF Brooklyn and wish TO retard its
progress It is a matter OF congratulation to
ali who have occasion TO travel between the two
toroughs that the committee of twenty-five, ap-
pointed by Borough President Littleton. has
50 strongly recommended the execution of the
rlan that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
many mas announced that it is willing to un-
5s-take the leasing and operation of such
loop without any captious objections as to its
cost. and that certain members of the Rapid
transit Commission. on which the carrying out
of The project so largely depends. have taken
.Ych = favorable attitude toward IT.
Briefly stated. the plan Is to construct an ele-
.a et~,,rt,,ra between the Brooklyn and Will
,srnsb,lrs bridges, in order that the elevated
,rsins of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system
nav have a continuous run. over one bridge and
hack bv way of the other, thus doing away
-z-,rb the terminal in Manhattan. which every
- ,,-ozrs and admits is the great cause of the
congestion Although the committee has not
committed Itself TO any particular route for the
nroposed connection. leaving 1t to the wisdom of
~ Fyanid Transit Commission, the latter now
,.s +To routes before il for consideration. The
a,st rms from the Brooklyn Bridge along Cen
tre-st Grand-st., Essex-st. and Delancey-st. to
.he Williamsburg Bridge. An alternative route
conternplates carrying the structure over pri-
vate property and through Baxter-st This
has been proposed TO meet the aesthetic obJec-
lions of those who say that elevated struct-
ure in Centre-st would injure the appearance
Of the Hall of Records. the Tombs and the Grim
,nal Courts Building. For practical purposes
however. this route is not considered as good as
the former. as it is important to have the loop
% near the great artery Of travel in Broadway
as possible.
# should be patent to everybody that by run
ming trains continuously in enc direction. in
stead Of stopping and switching them back at
any given point, they can be run faster
and more can be operated over a given track
II is impossible TO think of any one so dense as
not 10 see that by distributing the crowds that
now leave trains in the morning and take them
again at night within the narrow confines of the
BROOKLYN Bridge terminal over the length OF
she proposed loop connection the congestion VIII
fe relieved in the direction of the diminishing
point
TO MAKE BRIDGE WAY STATIONS.
Trains coming over the Williamsburg Bridge
VIII be run over the loop to the Brooklyn Bridge
and back TO Brooklyn by that structure and
conversely. trains from the Brooklyn Bridge VIII
be run over the loop and back to Brooklyn oy
~av Of the Williamsburg Bridge Thus, no mat
ter what elevated line passenger may want TO
carry him any particular part OF BrooKlyh
he will be able TO get it al any one OF the sew
eral large stations which il is proposed TO estaD-
lish along the route Of the loop. The END OF the
Brooklyn Bridge will then be no longer ter
1ninaL so far as the elevated trains are con-
oerned but only way staton-one OF the sew
eral in Manhattan. 1t win be used only by those
coming to or going from the territory south OF
the City Hall and adjacent 90 il. Persons on