Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-19
TRAFFIC SOLUTION GIVEN
BY CLINTON HILL MAN
T. S. Fettnger Outlines Benefits to Be Accrued by Establishing
Rapid Transit Terminal at ~SaybrOok Place, and Declares
Plan Is Only Feasible One to Relieve Congestion.

ton, and you will know what causes
whatever congestion there is at Broad
and Market.
h Pennsylvania officials say that
their Market street station is the
greatest local railway station in the
world, handling more people than any
other. These people must be conveyed
to that station by ears coming from
every section of Essex county to and
down Market street, and the same
number of people are disgorged from
Market street station every evening
when the greatest congestion occurs.
No Congestion in Broad street.
Now take away this traffic to and
from the Pennsylvania station at Mar
ket street and see how quickly the
congestion at the Four Corners win
disappear. There never has been con-
gestion on Broad street. Cars are
sometimes punched, bus just as often
there are. quarter and half mile
stretches without a car on the lines,
so that whatever congestion there is
in Broad street is due. not to too man.
cars, but to their inefficient handling.
There is congestion now on Market
street, hat must be admitted, and it is
entirely due to the traffic to Il from
the Pennsylvania station.
with the terminal at S%aybrook
place one-half the cars that go down
Market street across Broad could be
diverted, and one of the worst nuis-
ances, the Bloomfield line, would GER
tainly be diverted.
o course it would be necessary to
loop Military Park, much as that will
annoy the very good people whose res
licences face on it, but these few people
annot expect to stand in the way of
all Essex ~county-at least, not for
long.
at is easy to see that when the ears
from the Bloomfield, the Central avenue,
the Paterson and the ROseyiIie lines
are turned from Broad mt Central AVE-
nue. down to the SaybrOOk place ter
minaI, looping Military Park and re-
turning, and that many ears from
Springfield avenue and South Orange
avenue Will be turned into Washington
street and brought down Central ave-
nue. to the Saybrook place terminal
and around the park and back again
without touching East Market street,
hnu tHut Oiu VI uch VIM Dc DiOn%h s
down Bank street 10 loop the park and
go up Central avenue to Washington
and back to Springfield and South Or
ange avenues, TINT the traffic on Mar
ket street will be enormously relieved
and TINT for years TO come the -Four
Corners problem will be solved.
do not imagine that I do not be-
lieve in underground railways, for l
hold that the underground systems are
the only mes that ought to be built
in large cities. but. as Mr.. McAdoo
asks, who will build underground sys-
TENS when they are almost certain
to prove losing ventures?
No Advantage In short Line.
"A short line underground system
from, say, the Lackawanna station to
Lincoln Park will accommodate COM
paratively few people, and the same
may be said of one from the Court
House to Market street station. The
people in the north end of the city as
we'll as the people in the south end
would still have to take trolley cars
to reach the subway, and the only ad-
vantage would be in more speedy tran
sit that can be afforded On surface
ines. The building of the subways
would not materially, if at all. in
crease traffic receipts; consequently the
Public Service Corporation can hardly
be expected to invest its millions in
such a radical improvement In facil-
tiles; nor can individual capitalists be
expected to interest themselves. The
only hope would be in such action by
the municipal government and that
out the enormous traffic that pours
would surely be opposed by the tax
payers, so long as it was the opinion
of expert railroad men that it would
be a losing venture. consequently a
burden on the taxpayers.
There is this to think of, however:
The improved facilities for getting to
and from New York are going to enor-
mously increase the population of
Newark and vicinity. and If we are
going to encourage this increase we
must plan to afford adequate trans