New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-06
IN HE REALTY FIELDS eTAee .GREATER CITY

tire to avoid being struck by trains. OF
course. where there are only two traces
they will be separated by partition wall
The need for additional rapid transit u
shown by the fact that all Of these ave-
nues of transportation were conSessed
during the rush hours and that the con-
gestion is increasing from year to year.
The problem before the Public Service
Commission was to provide transit re-
lief in every direction. 1t says the dual
system does this:
BY giving the Interborough RAPID
Transit Company a new subway line on
the east side of Manhattan, north OF va
street. with branches in The Bronx. ana
a new subway on the west side south OK
4sd street, with a tunnel connection to
Brooklyn joining the present subway In
Fulton street. and extending the present
subway out Flatbush avenue to Eastern
Parkway and out Eastern PARKWAY "
prtso,o avenue. with a branch subway
down Nostrand avenue as far as fiatous"
avenue. and an elevated extension iio.'
pufsolo avenue out East eSth street '"
Iivonia avenue and out Livonia avenue
20 New Lots Road These subway eA-
,ore,ors alone will more than double the
len.th and carrying capacity OF 'he "a
istirg subway. Nd
nv giving TO the Interborough hap'u
Transit Company the right to thiro-uaeA
its Second, Third and Ninth avenue eie-
vated lines and TO extend the Lenox ave-
me branch of the existing subway from
1SOth street north through WHITE fiai"s
Road 10 241st street. and by extending
tho present Third avenue elevated line
from it's terminus at Fordham north
through Webster avenue and Gun Hull
Road to junction with the White F'aihS
Road extension of the subway.
BY connecting the present Ninth ave-
nue. elevated road from its terminus II
l55th street and Eighth avenue with the
Jerome avenue branch Of tho Lexington
avenue subway at l62d street. 30 that the
new lire on Jerome avenue, extending AS
far as Woodlawn Road, may be operateo
nv trains from the present Ninth avenue
Elevated railway as well as by trains
from the new Lexington avenue subway.
BY putting In operation the steinway
tunnel, owned by the lnterboroush hapio
Transit Company, and extending IT on the
Queens side so that 1t may be operateo
as a part of the subway from Az street.
Manhattan, to Long Island City at 4th
street. and from there to the Queens END
of the greensboro Bridge. from which
point the company Will have the privilege
of operating it's trains TO pitmars avenue,
Astoria, and to Sycamore avenue, Corona,
over new elevated lines TO be built as
part OF the new system.
BY giving the Interborough Rapid Tran
sit Company the right TO extend It's
, Second avenue IL" line, from 18th street,
Manhattan, across the greensboro Bridge,
and over the lines just mentioned TO AS
toria and Corona.
BY giving the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company the right to tie its South
, Brooklyn IL lines, including the Coney
Island roads, TO the Fourth avenue SUBJ
way In Brooklyn, and through that SUBJ
way by way of new tunnel from Mon
tague street, Brooklyn, to whitehall
street, Manhattan, and from Whitehall
street, up Broadway to i2d street, ana
thence UP Seventh avenue to 18th street.
and east on 59th street, to and over the
Greensboro Bridge, there to connect with
the ctys lines to Astoria and Corona,
over which the Brooklyn company VIII
have Joint trackage rights with the In
terborough company.
BY giving 20 the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Company the right TO operate the
Centre street loop subway In Manhattan,
connecting the Williamsburg and Man
haitian and Brooklyn bridges, and to send
its elevated trains into that loop by way
of the Williamsburg and Manhattan
bridges, and possibly eventually By the
Brooklyn Bridge as well. BY giving to
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company the
right to connect the Centre street loop
and the Manhattan Bridge line with the
Broadway subway by a new subway
through Canal street.
By giving TO the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company the right to operate new SUD-
way. TO be built by the city, known as
the Eastern District subway. from Sixth
avenue. Manhattan, through 1ith street
10 and under the East River TO North ith
street, Brooklyn, and through North tn
street Metropolitan avenue. Bushwick
avenue, Johnson avenue, Wyckon avenue
and other sheets TO a connection with
the Myrtle avenue and Broadway elevated
lines In Brooklyn.
The United Real Estate Owners Aseo"