Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-17
WORKS BD. TO Be
ASKED TO ALLOW
TROLLEY CHANGES
Twenty-seven Proposed Inn
provefhents Prepared by
P. S. and Civic Bodies.
MAJORITY NEEDED FOR
PARK PLACE TERMINAL
President T. N. McCarter to Ex-
plain Planned Relief of
Four Corner Congestion.

Application for permission TO COM
plete twenty-seven proposed improve
ments to the railway lines in this city
and outskirts was made by the Pub
lie Service to the Board of Works at
its meeting today.
The majority of the changes to be
made will be necessary in order to
carry out the plans for the central
trolley terminal which Is proposed to
be built ON Park place by the Public
Service Terminal Company along the
lines explained to the Board of Works
commissioners few weeks ago by
Thomas N, McCarter. president OF
Public Service Corporation.
The other improvements called
for in the application are the
result Of the various petitions
presented to the works board by
various improvement associations i'll
the city. for additional trolley trans
portation facilities.
President McCarter was present in
person and explained to the commits
sioners just why the Improvements
are necessary and how they will
benefit the community at large.
The underlying intention of the
proposed changes is to relieve the
congestion at the -Four Corners" and
to improve the general trolley trans
portation facilities as recommended
by the various Improvement assoca-
tions in the sections affected.
The Proposed Improvements.
The proposed improvements. which
the railway company seeks permis-
sion to complete, are as follows:
Subway from west side of Halsey
street, through Cedar. crossing Broad
street, Military Park, Park place,
Pine street and under a portion of
Boudinot street.
Overhead construction to carry ears
across Pine street in terminal build
ing.
Tracks on Park place from Canal
street to Central avenue, with extern
sion through Centre street to Null
berry street
Connection from Mulberry street to
terminal property
to subway private right of way
Tracks on Warren and High streets
from Washington to Market streets.
Double tracking High street from
Market to Springfield avenue
Tracks on Lafayette street from
Broad to Mulberry streets.
Double track curve from Mulberry
street north, into Market street east.
Double-track Curve on Bridge Street.
Double track curve on Bridge street
east, south into Front street.
Double tracking ogden street from
Fridge street O Clay street.
Double tracking Ogden street from
Clay street to Fourth avenue.
Connections at Broad and Clay
streets, and at Carlisle place and
Ogden street.
Tracks in Fourth avenue from
Ogden street to Belleville avenue.
Double track curve at Mt. Prospect
and Bloomfield avenues.
Double track curve at Clifton and
Bloomfield avenues.
Tracks on Twelfth avenue and
South Twelfth street from South
lenln street 10 teIlidl dNenue-pTo-
posed extension of Kinney line.
Tracks on Hawthorne avenue from
Elizabeth avenue to Clinton place.
Tracks on Bergen street and Lyons
avenue from Hawthorne avenue to
Elizabeth avenue-proposed extension
of Clifton line.
Double tracking of Miller street, be-
tween Elizabeth and Frelinghuysen
avenues.
Double track curve Clinton avenue
east into Bergen street south.
Extension of Y in South Eighteenth
street from Clinton avenue.
Connections at Bowery. Ferry and
Chapel streets.
Tracks in Jackson street from Mar
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