New-York tribune., 1906-12-28
WANTS A SUBWAY LOOP
N'DON4LD'S NEW Plan.
- 0ntd Connect Three Bridges es-Sta-
tlORS IN Ne1c Subzcau.

trict by running a two-track subway down Mas
sau street 10 Water street
In submitting the plan Mr. Mcdonald said
ne would guarantee that it would prove to be
thoroughly practical operating system He
said that ii would cost about $1OOOOOOO and
would obviate the necessity of building one of
the longer routes. He said that it would take
the place OF one of the routes the building of
which would cost about S25, 100000. It is under
stood that the Belmont interests are backing
Mr.. Mcdonald
Controller Metz objected to the route because
in going from Bedford and Flushing avenues IL
crosses in straight line to the Williamsburg
Bridge Plaza cutting diagonaliy through resi-
dence streets in old williamsburg He said that
it would cost the city S3.OOO,OOO or 100000 to
acquire right of way across this particular
section.
Beginning at Broad and Water streets. the
route is follows: Up Broad street and Mas
sau street past the entrance to the Brooklyn
Bridge TO Canal street. thence turning and going
through Canal street across the new Manhattan
Bridge 10 Flatbush avenue at its junction with
Fulton street. thence up Fulton street TO the
junction OF Fort Greene Place and Lafayette
avenue. thence along Lafayette avenue to Bed
ford avenue, turning at that point and running
10 Bedford and Flushing avenues thence
straight across about half mile Of old Will
Hayward Rutledge. Penn. Hewes. Hooper
Keap. Rodney and Ross streets to the new plaza
Of the Williamsburg Bridge. thence across the
bridge and through Delaney street Manhattan
TO Centre street, and down Centre street TO Mas
sau street, TO the point where it started The
proposed stations viii he at Water street Wall
street, Fulton street, the Bridge Worth street
Canal street and Centre street. and Canal street
and the Bowery. in Manhattan. and on the
Brooklyn side at De Kalb. South Portland CIin-
ton and Classon avenues De Kalb and Bedford.
Myrtle and Bedford. Flushing and Bedford.
Hewes street, Williamsburg Bridge Plaza. and
returning 10 Manhattan there will be stations at
Delaney street and the Bowery, and at Spring
street and Mulberry street
Mr. Mcdonald handed in a brief memorandum
Wiz. The map as follows:
This map shows underground routes for opera
!l"h IN connection with the Manhattan and Will
lalnsbuTg bridges. You will observe that this
plan makes use of routes that have already mel
WIN Win the approval OF the Rapid Transit Com
All the lines shown can be constructed ana
put INTO actual operation within three years Gf
The Manhattan Bridge is ready for tracks,
After long study Of this situation I have
come 70 the conclusion that this road when
completed. viii, beyond question, prove a sure
and efficacioUs remedyfSfor relieving fhe con-
Gestion al the terminal -Jf, the BrooLl,n TridgA
ana the territory Immediately adjacent thereto
and the same tine viii seci,re = r,g,er dirtr
pution Of the travelling public ali over the Man
hattan downtown business district. instead Of
luinlng them out at given point as now. 1t
VIII anord accommodations far superior 10 any
row IN use TO a population in the territory in
Brooklyn numbering about 100000. about one
quarter OF the total population of Brooklyn.
II should be understood that these my own
personal views. and that ! will urge them hO1
publicly and privately as being the most pracu-
present congested conditions.
Mr.. Mcdonald said that loop Of this kind
would take a Brooklyn passenger from the
financial district to Flushing and Bedford ave
nues IN about twelve minutes Controller Metz
asked that the route be changed to take
il down Bedford avenue to Division street fol-
lowing streets instead of cutting through private
property. THAT would add two new corners,
or angles, 10 the route. and would spoil it as an
operating proposition" said Mr. Mcdonald
Mr.. Mcdonald said that the new subway 10
Brooklyn would carry not more than twenty
thousand passengers an hour. That, he said.
was about the capacity OF any two-track sys-
TEN, and that about what his proposed new
two-track loop system would do. Chief Engi-
neer Rice said that probably ~ per cent Of
the Brooklynites who came 10 Manhattan did
not 20 above 14th street and he thought that
the new loop plan would carry a very large
traffic.
Mr.. Rives asked Mr.. Mcdonald if he had laid
out the route so that It would commend itself
10 private investors. 10 which Mr.. Mcdonald
gave a negative reply.
II think il could be built for about S10OOOOOO,
exclusive of the equipment" said MT. McDon-
aid. The saving of course is due 70 the fact
that both bridges would be used"
Chief Engineer Rice presented a long report, to
which attached a list Of the stations on the
proposed new subway routes in Lexington,
Third, Seventh and Eighth avenues, Manhattan,
and the Fourth avenue and Bensonhurst routes,
in Brooklyn The express stations are to be fur
ther apart says the report than the present
and the local stations to be about
ten blocks apart thus higher speed between
stations will be possible The list of stations
follows:
LEXINGTON AVENUE ROUTE.
Battery Park Exchange Alley. Cortlandt street.
Chambers street (expressD, Leonard street. Grand
street Houston street sth street. l4th street (ex
street 4Sd (eEpress), 52d street. 59tn street
@ 80 oe, tt 1I:tf street 1o3h nt S Sei
rressl, lS6th street. 14oth street, 149th street
i5GJh street, Gerard street Jerome avenue. l64th
street
THIRD AVENUE ROUTE.
Whitehall street. Nassau street bTanch-Beaver
street Fulton street Chambers street Pearl street
street, Chatham square Cexpress}, Canal street
Delaney street. Houston street, Sth street 14th
5lst street street (expressy ssth street. 10Th
street. Ssth street (express). ssh street l0Sth
street. 1920 street branch-St- AIMS avenue.
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH AVENUES ROUTE,
Battery Park Rector street Dey street. Murray
street (express). West Broadway branch-Frank-
pheT street 6eGpTess ilh street. 2sd Street. sifh
street teNpress( 4lst street Both street 5sth street
(eXpress)- Hudson street branch-Franklin street
Canal street. West Houston street Christopher
teXpressD, l4h street 23d street 34th street
(eXpressl, 42d street Both street 5Sth street (ex
press. Main lne-67th street, 18TH street seth
street (express), l35th street 1880 street. 1921
street teKpressl Woodycrest avenue. l66th street