New-York tribune., 1909-07-01
SHONIS MAKES NEW
TRANSIT PROPOSAL
Express SUBWAYS BOTH
ONEAST AND WEST SIDE.
FL" Third Tracking Condition
Trains Ooer Bridges and in
lSteinray Tube Included

rrsns,t Company presented yesterday . the
public Service Commission q proposition for the
e55itiop of sixty-eight and one-half miles of
-sv track facilities. forty-four Of which would
ha subway extensions and tventy-four and one
half would include third tracks and extensions
Of present elevated lines The company offers
70 build extensions Of its present subway up
Lexington avenue and Third avenue on the
Fast side. and down Seventh avenue to Canal
street. on the West side. and from there down
TO the Battery. in one direction and in another.
through Canal street and over the Manhattan
BrCse 70 Nevins street. in Broo --vn
L proposes an extension of the West Side ele-
waited lire out jerome avenue and an extension
Of TIE Second avenue elevated over the Queens
boro Bridge. and the operation Of the Stein
vay tunnel (Which shan be sold 70 the city at
cosD in connection with the subway system
The company promises Scent fare throughout
on the subway system and throughout on the
elevated system. and President Shonts dilates
on the advantages Of { co-ordinated and unliled
system of transit as compared 70 q number Of
separate cornpan.eE and more or less unrelated
lines
II is suggf -aed vat the most favorable way
for the -Intert ron 10 build the subways would
be a. an xtension Of contract No. l, under
which 'he present subway was built the only
char e-being that the company would furnish
the -7ey for construction instead Of the city.
The Company, however. wants the Public Ser
vice Commission 70 grant it indeterminate
franchises for the third tracking q the Third
avenue Second avenue and Ninth avenue ele-
waited lines. and. conditions its building Of sub
vsys on tte granting Of the elevated franchises
and the adoption by the commission Of the plan
fo- the Steinway tunnel
SUBWAY EXTENSIONS N DETAIL.
n Ss-zi1 he s71hu-sz- eTre4siors rrO0osed bv
tire Marlborough according 70 4 statement is
sued by President Shonts. are as follows:
: = four-traok subway extension. connecting
9xaet6a 5Tsn9s @ 70 aboat .st8 f' s,res, Ii '--'
? tVo-track subway extension connecting with
rue - Fss- I5aib stre+- gr5 the Harlem River;
same 70 oe used tcr purely local service and CON
neeting with al Of the existing subways and the
= fv-o-1racE sabway Connecting with the PRO
posed folr-track su5Dav IN Lexington avenue at
sbout ss-h street ard then under Third avenue
no:tee.!y passing under the Harlem River 70 East
there again connecting with the existing subway
70 West Farms ard devoted solely 10 express ser
= f6lr-traok zubvsy extension or. ne west
Sc eoaaee.ng az Tines Square v.-th me present
Ferlck street 70 Canal street
track subway e9tension. toutaerly b. way. OF west
SrozoTsT . Greenwich street so1therlv 5y way
ct Greenwich street 10 the Bstferv and there
lcopsd into The present su5u'a2,
: 5eZiH-lCE
Canal street 70 and over The Manhattan Bridge to
WITH the existing city's subway Flatbush avenue
r9e ana 30 street through the steina-a% funnel
avenue
These plans involve about eighteen miles Of
new tunnel construction. with forty-four miles
Of new track and. # completed. the city would
own subray route which. beginning on the
vest side of The Bronx at 242d street the
parade ground of Van Cortlandt Park would
run south along the west side Of Manhattan
10 the Battery. and from there north on the
East Side 10 East 1Soth street, at the Geological
Garden IN Bronx Park. with transverse connec-
tons from East 149th street. the Melrose dis
trict OF The Bronx down Lenox avenue TO
Vest 103d street. through 42d street from
Fourth avenue to Times Square and ar Canal
street, from Yarick street, or West Broadway
70 and across the Manhattan Bridge. connecting
With the city's subway az Nevins street and
running 70 Flstbush avenue Brooklyn together
with passage through the steinway tunnel
into the Borough Of Queens, the whole operating
under scent fare.
THE ELEVATED EXTENSIONS
The elevated extensions proposed are as fol-
lows.
syenue and 14sth street or the West Side over the
ring - stoIt 1870 sfree c,,4 q Ia,Lo I ItacA oegh
he reservoir. three blocks beyond the FordhaTn
two-trank Second avenue extension from
Chatham Square 70 the City Hall, thus enabling
Second avenue Passengers 10 20 directly to the
Brooklyn Bridge, and providing there a four-track
q one-new track trask for express service on the
Second avenue elevated 70 the Harlem River.
one nev track on the Third avenue road from
chatham saa2te 70 42d street. which, when con
additional track for express service through to
q, 4 centre track On the Ninth avenue elevated
rnning from Cortlanct street 14th street which
wifi certain station changes az 18th street and
.cssh street VIII VIII permit an express serTice on
S;stance OF nine and half miles and thence along
the -rooosed Jerome avenue extension a distance
Connect two of the existing tracks on the
Greensboro Bridge 10 the Second avenue elevated
streets the Second avenue elevated line will con-
tain four tracks TINS viii give elevated rail-
road connection from the plaza Of the Greensboro
pTiSze in Long Island City drect the C-itv Hall
OF Va second avenue together With connec
-ion with the existing elevated roads in Manhattan
Island and The Bronx with a single scent fare.
The Interboroueh company also proposes to
1enzthen the present subway stations but with
the use Of the city's money In closing # SAYS
:, ts willing TO separate this proposition and the
rronositions for the elevated line work and the
rro,osition for the subway extensions. and is
willing 10 go ahead with the third tracking of
elevated lines. regardless of favorable action on
N. subway propositions but the statement
.z .t present advised. are hardly prepared
"a "a on with the expensive subway extensions
w6eIa derive from me third tracking Of The eie2
-,stes rosds. We feel. moreover. that we must
i.sEe @ tyrnei. the extensions over the Manhstfsr
and oueense39ro bridges and The Jerome avenue
become practicable only IL the Interborough Rapid
rrznine rrznsi tie subvSsys under the most econsiosI
plan possible, contingent upon the acceptance of