The farmer and mechanic., 1915-05-04
HONEYCONlBING THE ISLAND OF
MANHATTAN WITH SUBWAYS
When System Now Under Way is Open for Travel No A
More Construction of the Single Deck Plan VIII BE
Possible.

will be able to handle the traffic "lth-
in a decade.
New York City's Share.
New York citys share IN the Dual
system is of overshadoWlnS import
ance. It may not be generally known
that the existing subway IN Manhat-
tan and the Bronx is owned Dy the
citv. although under lease to the IN
terborough Rapid Transit Company
Aside, therefore, from representation
in the new work, as standing Tor the
public. New York city was bound to
take an active part in the creation OF
the Dual System. The existing situa-
tion NAV be indicated as follows:
The entire grouping Of lines built
and building, known as the Dual SyS-
tenn, will be operated as ons system
Toward the new system, the city con-
tributes what it oWns-the subway IN
Manhattan and the Bronx; ana the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
contributes it's elevated roads in Man
haitian and the Bronx. The city is
furnishing most of the money for the
building of the new lines, but the In
terborough and the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit contribute toward the cost OF
construction and are to bear the en-
tire cost of the equipment. This
equipment is to become the property
! of the city of New York the day the
new lines are placed in operation, but
| the cost of it is to be realized out of
| the earnings.
Cost In Millions.
The cost of construction and equip
| ment for the entire system it is figured
will be $33O,00O,000. OF this amount
the city pays about one-half, the In
terborough Rapid Transit one-third,
and the New York Municipal Railway
| Cor Brooklyn Rapid Transit as it is
better knoWn) will pay he remainder.
Of the amounts to be paid by the COM
panies half will be devoted to the line
construction, and the other half to
| equipment. Since lines and equip
ment are to become municipal prop
cray, it follows that the associated
companies must participate in the ad-
vantages to the extent of leases which
will give them operating rights and
the profits accuing therefrom-an inn
lportant return in view of the millions
OF passengers carried yearly in the
most compressed car space in which
human beings have ever travelled.
| When the contracts were signed
back in 1913 they called for the con-
struction of 44.55 miles of new sub
way, 53.19 miles Of new elevated roao
and 1913 miles of third track and other
additional tracks on the existine
elevated railroads, making an addi.
ton of 117.54 miles to New York:
transportation facilities. TIL IRE seem.
! to be little acquaintance with the fac
tnat certain amount of this WOrl
has already been done and the line.
are IN use. In Brooklyn this com
pleted portion embraces the Fourth
avenue subway, cOmpriSi..g four miles
; or four-track road running from tn,
Manhattan bridge to Fourth avenu,
ana Forty-third street. Tl.en there i
r the Centre street loop, four tract
f subway mile and a half long. whicl
l runs from Manhattan's famous news
l paper section, Park Row, to the Man
haitian and Williamsburg bridges
FINALLY, there is the Belmont tunne
0 which runs under the East River from
e t'orty-second street. Manhattan, t
S Long Island City.
n Io Open Up New Paths.
The work now under constructio O.
q aims, on the Manhattan side, to ope
f up trafflc paths where the existin
: SUBWAY does not offer service. Broad
4 way and the West Side Of New Yor
v up to Times Square from the Cit
h Han; were out Of the beaten pat
- OF the subway. One of the busies
sections Of the city, therefore, offer
ed nothing but surface lines to tn
man IN haste, unless he went ives
" and climbed stairs to the elevate
roads The new subways in Manhad
'oiA Will SO up broadway and SoJ
u enth avenue, and will join the olde
= system at Forty-second street. On
y OF Its branches will then procee
W north through Lexington avenue, an
n under the Harlem River, and far O,
le as an elevated road into what is sti
" sparsely- settled (from a New Yor
g vieWpOint) suburb
& Taken as whole, the Dual Syste]
plans call for the extension of the e.
vs. listing subway from Forty-secou
r. street in Manhattan up Lexingto
le avenue, with branches in the Bror
ae and an extension down Seventh av,
e. nue. to the lower part Of Manhatta
Mt with tunnel to Brooklyn; the tai
a ing IN Of existing elevated railroad
at IN brooklyn owned by the Brooky
Rapid Transit Company; the loop
Park Row in Manhattan; a gener
sit third tracking of Brooklyn elevat.
he roads. and the now finished Broo]
~. lyn subways.
- When January 1, 1917. ro
NJ around the Brooklyn trains will