New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
Clark Street
Subway To Be
Opened April /
Three New Tunnels Within
Year to Tighten Burdens
of Tubes, Whitney Says
Direct Lines to Brooklyn
Montague and Doth Street
Projects to Give Better
Service to the Beaches

The Clark Street subway will be
opened by April I. Travis H. Whitney,
acting chairman of the Public Service
Commission, announced last night in a
statement to The Tribune. The Monta-
gne Street tunnel, he said, would be in
operation in eight or nine months and
the Sixtieth Sire. tube to Queens by
January, 1920.
Thus within q year three great new
arteries, linking Manhattan with Brook
lyn and Queens, will relieve the con-
gestion occasioned by the use of the
Centre Street loop US the only tunnel
of the dual system
The Clark Street tunnel, the first Of
She new interborough connections to be
finished, lacks only signal and electri-
cal work and station finish to be thrown
open to the travelling public, according
TO Chairman Whitney. The tracks we're
completed a week ago.
Through tho Clark Street tunnel
The express trains of the West Side
subway. instead of stopping at Wall
and William Streets, Manhattan, will
go direct to Atlantic Avenue. Brook
lyn," Chairman Whitney explained.
Changing To Be Eliminated
'"This will make it possible for
brooklyn passengers TO get trains for
either the East or West Side subwavs
without changing. It will mean greater
speed and better service all around"
10 lessen the congestion at Atlantic
Avenue, an extension of the subway to
Prospect Park Plaza VIII be ready for
service IN three or four months. Whit
ney stated. He said that this would
carry many people to their homes, who
would otherwise be compelled to change
at Atlantic Avenue for surface cars.
which are already overcrowded. The
direct rapid transit connection with
Manhattan will also tap a large new
residential district.
This branch is EVENTUAL to be ex-
sended from Prospect Park plaza to
Eastern Parkway, with a two-track
spur down Nostrand avenue Because
of construction and labor difficulties.
this portion of the work will not be
opened for another year, according to
the Public Service official.
Through Service to Coney
Artery No. 2, to receive the over
SAo"uAhS 10 lic 1oHIdSue street tunnel.
which Mr.. Whitney predicted, would be
in use in eight or nine months. This
opening will, by late summer, give di-
rect access from the hotels, theatres
and restaurants of Times Square to
The cooling breezes of Brighton Beach
and Coney Island.
"The Montague street tunnel will
hook up the Brighton Beach line with
the Broadway (Manhattan) subway"
said Commissioner Whitney. "It viii
allow the Broadway locals which now
stop at Whitehall street, Manhattan. to
go through to Brooklyn, and, bv using
the tracks of the Brighton Beach line,
to go through to Coney Island.
"At the same time there will be
opened two-track connection between
the Brighton Beach and the Fourth
Avenue subways. This will run from
Dalbone Street to Atlantic Avenue. and
will bring Brighton Beach express
trains into the Fourth Avenue subway"
The northward extension of the
broadway. subway will provide the
third outlet-to Queens In three or
four months, according to Whitney. the
broadway subway will be opened up as
far as Fifty-ninth Street. By the end
OF the year the construction will be
nnfshed eastward to Sxtieth Street.
thence through the Sixtieth Street
Snoe' under Blackwells Island, to
Queens.