New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-17
WILL STIMULATE
BUILDING in BRONX
Rapid Transit Provided for
Much Bigger Area than
Present Lines.
BENEFITS FROM THE
DUAL SUBWAY SYSTEM
Five.Cent Ride from City Line to
New Lots Road, Distance of
Twenty.six Miles.

The Bronx will be large beneficiary
under the dual subway system. AT pres
ent the rapid transit lines of the prese II
subway system have 2es miles of single
track. The dual system will have sos
miles Of track-more than double the
present mileage. The cost of the con-
struction and equipment OF the new sys-
tenn will be about 1856. 10000 Statisticians
say that the dual system, II used to its
fun capacity. will be able TO carry more
than three billion year.
Under the dual subway system plan the
new lines and the existing transit routes
will be operated In two grand divisions,
one by the marlborough Rapid Transit
Company. which operates the present sub
way and the IL" lines In Manhattan and
The Bronx. and the other by the New
York Municipal Railway Corporation
formed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company. which controls the present IL
lines in Brooklyn.
The contract under which the system
will be operated provides for single
fare OF FIVE cents on each system, with
free transfers at intersectng points Tor
a continuous ride in the same general
direction. The longest ride now obtain
able for five cents is through the sub
way from Atlantic av.. Brooklyn, TO Van
Cortlandt Park. or 242d st, on the Broad
way line. a distance of seventeen and
cne-half miles. On the dual system II
will be possible for a passenger to travel
over the marlborough system from the
terminus of the White Plains Road line
near the northern city boundary, the
whole length Of The Bronx and Manhat-
tan. under the East River. to Brooklyn,
and through the Eastern Parkway sub
way and its extensions to New Lots av.,
a distance Of about twenty-siX miles. for
one fare and without change Of cars.
In regard TO some of the benefits that
will accrue TO The Bronx by the building
of the dual systems Of rapid transit, the
Public Service Commission has this TO
say: Rapid transit facilities in The
Bronx will be more than quadrupled by
the completion Of the dual system. Prac-
tically four entirely new lines of rapid
transit railroads will be constructed in
the borough. The Lexington av. subway
will have two branches-one extending up
jerome dV. 10 w OOuldNH 1lodu anu TIC
other up Southern Boulevard and West
chester av. to Pelham Bay Park. In addi-
ton there will be the White Plains Road
line, which will be an extension OF the
Bronx Park branch OF the existing SUBJ
way, and will run clear to 24lst st, near
the city line. Connecting with this line
will be the Webster av. extension of the
Third av L.
"A connection will be made between the
Third av Il and the existing subway At
149th st, also between the existing sub
way and the Jerome av. branch at 18th
st Another connection will be made be-
tween the Ninth av. Il line, from its
present terminus at 155th st and Eighth
av., with the Jerome av. line at l62d ST.
This will make possible the Joint use of
these new lines by trains from subway
and elevated lines.
Through express service on both sub
way and elevated lines from the northern
termini Of the new roads Will be possible.
Residents of all parts of Tho Bronx will
be given their choice of lines downtown,
so that they will be able to go either by
subway or Il trains down the East Side
or down the West Side Of Manhattan"