New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-12-13
NEW SUBW PLAN
PASSENGER AND FREIGHT.
Contractor Asks p. S. C.'s Approval
of $3.50 900, 900 Project. o

In letter to the Public Service Commission taking
exception TO the plan proposed by w ). NhsuS
for a general freight terminal and SUBWAY u -
Mclean i contractor. yesterday made public a
counter proposal for a general passenger anu
freight subway scheme for all the railroads enter
ing New York City. His proposal would nave the
advantage over that OF Mr.. Wfgus he salo' OF
making the method conform to existing conditions
and not force a change in the conditions 10 sun
the method" 1t also would keep the proposed SUP
wevs beneath the piping in the streets ana IN ston
places not TO interfere Win
transit subways. - o.,
Mr. Mclean. would build tunnels ana suo"aSS
enable the Central Railroad Of New jersey 'i7
baltimore & Ohio. the Lehigh Valley. the feao.ls'
the Erie the Lackawanna the Ne" AoIh' ~"
Haven & Hartford and the BUshwick branch OF the
Long Island bring their passenger trains to .
union station in Manhattan, at the olock ooul
nv Park Row. Oliver. Cherry and Pearl streetS' %
reer nv thence transferring passengers TO the SUP
vay and elevated roads. In the night anu ca
morning these tracks part or ALL couiu oe 4
for the transportation of freight. . -,
To enable these roads and the PernsylVanIa' .i-o
,1o sbora tho New York Central and the Harlem
railroads to deliver freight cars in Manhattan anu
The Bronx combined railroad ana roadway So
u-avs should be built in West street from LS$I''
street 10 22d street thence in Eleventh avenue u
.oz 80. J., south street from Whitehall street
70 C4o,,verneur Slip: in West Broadway from NescS
street TO Fifth avenue; in Fifth aFehIe NO -
22d street and Broadway in Broadway nort I'm
235 street to 34h street and Sixth avenue IN SIKH
10th street from First avenue to Lexington avenue
in SSH street from Eighth avenue to Bfoaa"aE' III
Seventh avenue from 10th street to lSo1h street.
and in Willis avenue The Bronx. from lS4th street
TO 14Sth street.
These subvays should be bis enough, the pro
nosal saws for d roadway p feet wide Tor au'o-
mobile and team trucking and two or IN some
three railroad tracks. One track might mus
used for loading and unloading thus cohNe,rIs
these subways into yards for loading and unload
ing freight trains. 49,
Connecting railroad subways should ne DUN a.
cording TO the plan, to serve as pasSaee"ayS -oi
freight cars, connecting the various Ireisns s,.
ways and also those with the passenger 'ull'i9
The freight cars would not run into the passenger
stations.
Where there were large factories or mercantile
esta blishments in streets where rallroau sumo
were 10 be built tubes of sufficient size for railroad
re sbou1d he built from the railroad subways di-
rect1v into the premises to permit receiving frelst
in carload lots. Other shippers and receivers Vi
freight whose shipments were in less than CARROTS
would do business from the combined road ana rail-
road subways by ways of motors or trucks Mar
row truck subways TO trs railroad su5vays Woulu
be built in the connecting and parallel sIeets' anu
from those where business warranted brahch
truck subway into business premises. In these truck
sllbways the traffic always would be IN one olIec-
ton in each subway, ard in the opposite direction
of those on adjacent streets. Elevators 10 convey
trucks into the truck subways also would be used
This MAN Mr. Mclean declared would furnish
relief
said II would benefit the average business man. ana
would be of especial advantage in handling freight
at the docks and freight incoming and outgoing
steamships.
All the tunnels subways and surface connections
snecifed in his various schedules could be built,
Mr. Mclean said at present prices for that nature
of work for $4,000, 600 Twelve railroads would
be benefited by the scheme; If each would sub
scribe or underyvrite s10,S3S,334 money sufncient
TO construct this work would be raised.
ba-of guch
notifications in routes and location as you may
deem essential, meet with your early consideration
and approval relative granting franchise there
for l shall be pleased to furnish you with infor-
NATION regarding nv associates in this undertake
ing and also furnish you with such maps and plans
as Won may deem necessary" the letter ends.