Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-10-21
TRANSPORTATION IN NEW YORK
City Terminals Without Traffic Con-

City Terminals Without Traffic Con-
nection.
Scientific American The total
lack Of a cO-ordinated plan Cor shall
we say of cO-ordina. ion of effOrt0
in the provision of transportation ia
cilities in New York city, is fOrciOIy
brought to the notice of the public
by a letter of Vice-President Rea OF
the Pennsylvania railroad company
to Chairman Wilcox of the public
service commission, which draws at
tention to the fact that when the
Pennsylvania new station at Sew
enth avenue and Thir1y-third street,
New York, is opened to the public
in the summer of 10, it will be
without any connection with the rap
id transit system of the city.
The predicament in which the
magnificent new terminal will find
itself has its parallel in the history
of the three great bridges across the
East river. The Williamsburg bridge
stood, for several years after its
competition, completely isolated from
the elevated railroad systems of
Manhattan and Brooklyn; and it was
only recently that the costly elevat-
ed approaches to, and roadways on,
the bridge were placed in service.
The great greensboro bridge, open
en- q few months ago, is likewise
without any rapid transit or elevat-
ed railway connections: and the
present indications are that the new
Manhattan suspension bridge, which
will be completed within a year, Will
find itself in the same predicament
The case Of the new Pennsylvania
terminal will be particularly aggra-
waited since it will not only bring
all the express trains of Americas
greatest railroad into the city, bu-
it will also serve as the gathering
and distributing center for a large
suburban travel from New Jersey
and from the extensive. and popu-
Ious residential districts Of Long
Island.
Obviously the most satisfactory
plan for placing the Pennsylvania
terminal in immediate touch with the
subway system would be to build an
extension Of the existing subway
south from Forty-second STREE
through Seventh avenue to the Bat
terry. This is the plan advocated by
The PENNSYLVANIA company. and as
far back as 1906 such a route was
laid out by the old rapid transit com
mission as part of a complete sys-
TEN through Manhattan and the
Bronx, the nOrtherIy portion of which
was to be built up Lexington avenue
from FOrty-second street to provide
the East side with greatly needed
facilities. This route is indOrsed by
the present public service commits
sion The failure to build the line
must be laid at the door Of the In
terbOrough company, which operates
the present subway; for it was not
until last June that the offer Of this
company to construct such a line
was received by the commission.
who have the proposal now under
consideration. The travelling public
has no interest in the controversy
as TO where lies the responsibility
for the delay; but it is tremendously
interested in having this line cor
with the least possible de-
lay. We are well aware that there
are other rapid transit routes be-
fore the commission, for each of
which their particular sponsors claim |
Gpecial advantages and the neces-
sity for immediate construction; but |
in view Of the Importance of the |
new Pennsylvania terminal as dis |
center and Of the pressing /
need for another four-track line
south from Forty-second street to /
the Battery, we believe it viii be |
the concensus Of opinion that this I
line should be one Of the first, II /
not the very first, to be authorized, /
and that the contractors and the /
public service commission should |
Join hands in rushing it to an early /