The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-09
HERE'S THE PLAN
FOR $50,0OO,00O
SUBWAY LINES
West Side Down Seventh Ave-
nue. and to Battery; East Side
Up Lexington Avenue.
10 PIERCE THE BRONX.
Engineers Estimate. That the
Work Could Be Finished
in Five Years.


From source having authority The
Evening World is able to present the
outline Of the plan OF the Interborough
to expend ;5o,O"oOC0 in subway extern
sions which will form the groundwork
OF comprehensive plan to supply New
York with underground transportation
for passengers for fifty years to come
As condition to starting the work
the lnterborough will ask the Legisla-
,ure to amend the Elsberg law 80 az
TO extend the tenure OF operation Of
the present subway at least ftty years
and make the tenure OF operation Of
the extensions long enough TO bring the
expiration OF the contract for operatIon
OF both the present subway and the ex.
tensions at the same time.
Plans for New Lines.
TIE lnterborou.h ha, had plans drawn
and estimates made for extensions south
from the present subway az point
about For:yfourth street and Broad
way, down Seventh avenue to Green
w.ch Village, under certain streets in
that section TO Greenwich street and
down Greenwich street 10 the Battery.
there 10 connect with the presen, sinh.
way bv n loon This line would tan
the new Pennsylvania station and pass
under and connect with. II necessary.
both the N,rAdoo tunnels from New Ier.
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IN sic. thar they % IN On a fourth lave,
.unre, ,o- urban messenger traffic in
the world NJ MoAdoo has told .hs
prh,lc Service Commisslo, tha, he |,
Willingly TO take the fourth level, as
depth is no bar to construction or oper.
alton.
By mean. OF switches and crossoyers,
no; AT grade, It will he possible, II the
plan Is carried out. to run trains from
the Battery IN the lower west side,
across Forty.second street and up the
.ns. side or Lexington avenue extern.
nor, and TO continue the operetlon O!
trains up the present Fourth avenue
line, across Forty-second street and up
Broadway and over TO I.enor avenue.
These trains could be in,erspersed with
through trunk trains and there would
he no more traffic over the stretch OF
track between Grand Central Station
and Times Square than there is now.
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