New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-20
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soon be thing of the past, as the cleo
IRRIGATION Of the entire North Side d.
vision is expected TO be completed In the
near future.
Within the next few years Bayside Is
likely TO be brought within the dual rap'o
transit system Of the city. And If this
proposition takes concrete form the town
will be i'm the scent fare zone OF New
York. as one of the terms of the Puo1c
Service Commission. in relation 10 the
enlargement of the subway and elevated
lines OF the city. is that the fare from
one terminus 10 another be cents. In
regard to this fare question the Public
Service Commission recently said with
territory allotted To each company the
rate of fare for continuous ride VIII De
cents This will include transfers from
new TO old lines, or vice versa on each
conpany's system, but Will not include
transfers between lines operated by the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company ana
lines operated by the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company, nor from elevated TO
subway lines of the Interborough Com
pany."
In view vi lUtSr pIoicNNo ipd' SiNN -
right in the pathway of the most impor-
tant rapid transit Improvements planned
for the Borough OF Queens. 1t WILL there
fore. be q large beneficiary Of the dual
subway system, as already projected.
Every subway, surface and elevated line
in Queens will help TO mould the building
form Of the town.
on March % the contracts for the dual
subway system were signed by the Pub
lie Service commissioners and represent
atives OF the Interborough Company and
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
Briefly, the Borough of Queens will
gain. as O. result of those contracts a
series of all rail routes into the heart Of
old New York.
From the greensboro Bridge Plaza is TO
be built a three-track elevated structure.
which will have its easterly terminus In
Sycamore street, Corona. Both the Inter
borough and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Will have Joint trackage rights over that
elevated structure.
The Steinway tube. which runs from
Long Island City to a point near the
Grand Central station. is to be extended
DOtn eaSterly ana westerly ltS westerly
terminus Will be at Times Square and Its
easterly end will be at the greensboro
Bridge Plaza in the Borough Of Queens.
The interborough line owns the Steinway
tube, and, therefore. the tube route VIII
form spur into the heart of Long Island
for the subway to be built from the Bat
terry through Seventh avenue to Times
Square That Seventh avenue line will be
four tracks north of Park Place, and VIII
extend through the business heart and
the chief amusement centre Of old New
York.
The Second avenue line. also owned by
the marlborough. is to have a spur from
Goth street TO the easterly side OF the
Greensboro Bridge Plaza, and will be
connected with the elevated structure al
ready planned to be built to Corona.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
under the provisions Of the dual subway
system, has the right to tie its South
Brooklyn elevated lines, including the
Coney Island roads, to the Brooklyn
Fourth avenue subway, and through that
subway, by way of new tunnel from
Montague street, Brooklyn, to Whitehall
street, Manhattan, and from Whitehall
street up Broadway to 42d street. and
thence up Seventh avenue to 18th street
This Brooklyn Rapid Transit route Will
extend east on 18th street TO and over
the greensboro Bridge. there TO connect