Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-05
R. R. MAN
TELLS PLANS.
Newark Distributing Point for
Passenger Traffic. Seventy
Feet Under Ground.

While discussions concerning rap
id transit projects that will bring
Perth Amboy into closer touch with
New York are being carried on with
confusing effect, so far as the gen
eral public is concerned, the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company has been
steadily forging ahead in the practi-
cal working out of its plans for the
betterment of travelling facilities be-
tween this city, Newark and the me-
tropolis of the Empire state. These
plans were long ago adopted and any
changes that may be made will really
concern Newark as a distributing cen
tire more than any other point on the
lines of the proposed Improvements.
This was the positive statement of
one who is in close touch with the
P. R. R. management to a newspaper
man in New York Yesterday after
noon. Asked for a plain statement
concerning the plans of the company
between New Jersey and New York,
he said:
Whatever plans other
lions may have, you may depend on
the Pennsylvania carrying out it's
W schemes in 81 far as it's own
traffic is concerned. 1t is the inten-
ton of the company to have all their
tunnels, the approaches thereto and
the electric equipment completed at
the anne time the great new station
between Thirty-second and Thirty
fourth streets, in New York, is ready
for business. All trains between
Newark and New York will be moved
by electricity. There will be two
pairs of tunnels. One will extend
from a point just east of the Passaic
river to and through Cortlandt street
New York, to Church street, through
Church street to Dey street, west be-
meath Dey street to the river and
thence across the river again to the
Pennsylvania station in Jersey City.
These tunnels will be continued be-
meath Railroad avenue in that city
and under the Bergen hills to the
starting point ear the Passaic river,
where the company is now doing
some of the preliminary work.
"All of the tunnels in New York
below the new uptown station will be
seventy feet under ground so as to
clear all other underground construc-
ton work. The contract for the new
bridge over the Hackensack river for
the northern branch has already been
awarded. The downtown and uptown
lines will be connected by a tunnel
that will run a good part of the dis
lance under Sixth avenue from the
new Church street station to the up
town station.
There will be no freight run over
these roads, and the downtown line
will probably be the more important
of the two, for the present at least,
because the greater part of the long
haul traffic will consist of people who
want to reach the Wall street section
of the city.
All of the freight will be carried
over the new road to be opened be-
tween Trenton and Waverly yards,
and thence by the Waverly cutoff
into Jersey City. OF course there may
be a little local freight carried, but
it is the policy of the company to get
the freight out of the way of the pas
senger traffic altogether, wherever
possible"
Once the present plans are fully
carried out, it is expected that the
use of electricity as a motive power
will soon follow on the whole of the
New York division of the road. The
new line now being prepared by the
company, from Philadelphia to At
lantic City, will be run by electricity,
and if that proves a success, a more
~general Introduction of the electric