The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-10-03
THIRD TRACKING
Of THE q" LINES
TWO YEARS AWAY
No Contracts for the Work, to
Cost About S50,OOo,COO,
Will Be Let Till 1914.
EXTENSIONS TO BE MADE
P. S. Commission Decides to
Have the Work Keep Step
With New Subways.
EXTENSIONS TO BE MADE

wednesday nights rloudburst,
switch nDoded the subways and tied
up trafhc aimoet completely on the
naevateA snd surface lines. bringing to
Nhs forcible attention Of New Workers.
Che absolute need for a speedy thru
tracking Of the present elevated lines.
has brought to iieht also the fact that
-Such third trucking will not become .
TsaiIty for two years
Although about 100000 worth Of
lslevated third tracking and extension
MAS been authorised by the Public Ser
nee Commission. no contracts have
,1bsn Let for the work. and mona will
40 let before 1914. II Is estimated
that II will require a year and q half
before the work can be completed after
Che contracts are let.
On March 10. 1918. tho Public Ser
Vice. under the dual system" OF trans
tcrtation. authorized tho following
thirdAracking on existing elevated
lines.
liN0 IN MANHATTAN THAT
ARE INCLUDED.
SECOND AVENUE LINE-Thh now
has practically no third tracking. II
will he third tracked from Chatham
Sauare 20 the Harlem River. where II
connects with the Third avenue FL"
This will permit an express service
downtown m the morning and uptown
q nisht.
VrHIRD AVENUE LINE-rhis limo
n now third tracked from Forty-ssc-
ond street TO the Harlem River. II
will he third tracked from Forty-sec.
ond Atrcet TO its terminus At City Hail.
and from the Harlem River. where II
Joins the Second avenue line. 10 Pei
ham avenue.
SIXTH AVENUE LHNE-Recauae II
becomes part Of the Ninth avenue line
at Fifty-third street, II cannot be
third tracked downtown.
NINTH AVENUE LINE-This line
now has a third track from Chris-
topher Fourteenth streeO 70 Ono
Hundred and Sixteenth street II will
be continued south to the Battery and
north 10 It's terminus at One Hundred
and Fifty-hfth street.
LINES IN BROOKLYN THAT WILL
De CHANGED.
BROADWAY LINE-wiil ne third
tracked from the Williamsburg
Bridge to East New York
FULTON STREET LINE-wiii bs
third tracked from Hillary street, near
Brooklyn Bridge. to East New York
MYRTLE AVENUE LTNE-wil bs
third tracked from Broadway. Brook
IN. 70 wyckoR avenue.
In addition. many elevated extensions
'shnd third tracks have been authorized.
(5hs merged sixth and Ninth avenue
Snes wnl be carried 10 Jerome avenue.
sW1here they will become part OF tho
.A&xineton avenue open air subway ard
Ne6ntinue TO woodawn road.
The Third and Second avenue lines.
snnddng at One Hundred and Eightieth
0ereet and the Bronx Park. will no ex-
snded up Webster avenue TO GuNhili
boad and there Join the White Plains
eaxteRsion Of the rrOent subway. going
~ ~ north as Two Hundred and
0rtyArst street.
= In BFDoklyn. the Broadway line will
- extended up jamaica avenue to
&0rand street. in Jamaica. l.. I. The
DSaton street line Will DO extended from
Liberty svenue to Lenerts avenue.
coMPcrN,vE BIDS TO BE MADE
7 FOR THE WORK.
The third tracking OF the elevated
lnes will be done by the lnterborough
nd the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. which.
Under the Law, must let tie work by
Dompetttivs bidding. unless the Public
Dsrvice Commission authorize the con-
fruction In q d!fferent way. The pro-
posal OF the Interborough TO have all
41hs work done by tho John r. Stevens
4oonstruction Company. which was 10
10 the work al cDst and reoeive Is per
pent. OF the cost ~ its fee. was never
sanctioned and will not be. the Stevens
Gompany now being In bankruptcy.
The extensions OF the elevated limos
20 portions OF the Lexington avenue
subway. where they are to operate the
same tracks Jointly. will be paid for by
the city, the work being done under
competitive bidding.
The engineers Of the Public Service
Commission have decided that II vail be
no help to the congested traffic con-
ditlons to third track the present ele-
waited lines until the city subway ex-
tensions, with which they will connect.
nave been competed. Ihe subway VIII
take four yeaIs from the time work
IL started TO complete Two more years
Will pass, therefore. before the subways
, are completed and In operation. For
that reason the commission has decided
10 delay the work OF third tracking the
elevated lines until such time that their
completion Will be co!nc!dent with the
seInpietion OF The subways and their