The sun., 1919-01-05
LINK TIMES SQUARE
AND CITY HALLLO
Fifth Avenue Association Pre-
sents Plan to Alleviate AID
Street Shuttle Evils.
SUBWAY HEADS APPROVE
Public Service Commission
Also Hears About Moving
Sidewalk as Connection.

Headed by the Fifth Avenue Associa-
tion a group OF business and civic or
CARNATIONS have presented to the Pub
lie Service Commission plan which
they believe will alleviate the conges-
ton and confusion now existing In the
subway traffic between Grand Central
Station and Times Square.
The petition asking the commission
to put the plan into effect is signed BY
Robert Grier Cooke OF the Fifth Ave-
nue. Association: Major II. G. Opdyke,
managing director of the Broadway As
ISOLATION; walter Stabler. president or
the Twenty-third Street Improvement
Association; John D. Beals. president OF
the Washington Heights Taxpayers As
ISOLATION; George d. Mortimer. president
OF the Equitable Building Corporation ;
j. Clydesdale Cushman and Charles B.
JaQua.
The plan. which II Is stated has been
evolved after consultation with eugi-
neers and traffic experts. provides for
certain changes in the shuttle system
and for through local trains between
Times Square and the City Hall loop.
1t is being put forward as at least a
temporary solution Of the present diff
culties. Theodore p. Shonts, president,
and Frank Hedley general manager. of
the marlborough. have assured those
interested that the necessary changes
in the underground system could be
made within a req sonab BILE time At the
same time the petitioners ask that the
question of more radical and permanent
lchanges be taken up to the end that
the subway system may be made more
useful to the people OF New York.
Details of PROPOSED Changes.
AS described in statement made pub
lie last night, the plan Is as follows:
The present two track shuttle service
between Times Square and the Grand
Central Station. according to the relief
plan sponsored by the Fifth Avenue AS
ISOLATION and its sister associations, is to
continue. hut with two important modif-
cations. First, the shuttle tracks would
be Immediately extended 30 as to bring
their eastern ends much nearer to the
Lexington avenue tracks. This would
save the public the long walk now neces-
sary between the shuttle terminus and
the platform for uptown and downtown
trains.
1.-THE second suggested change would
have all shuttle trains in both directions
make intermediate stops near the old
subway stairways at Madison avenue
and near Fifth avenue. This arrange
ment. II Is declared. would give the trav-
cling public easy and convenient access
TO Forty-second street and the Grand
Central Terminal and would be a vast
Improvement over the conditions now
prevailing.
IAN ever more important part of the
new plan provides that the remaining
two Forty-second street tracks be con-
nected at their east ends with the north
and south local tracks under Fourth ave-
nue.. Local trains, II Is proposed. will
then start from Times Square and run to
the City Hall loop, making the return
trip to Times Square
Would Skip Grand Central.
1.-The suggestion !s made that these
local trains leaving Times Square do not
stop at Grand Central Station, but con-
tinuing down town. make their first stop
at Thirty-thiri street These trains. 1t Is
pointed out. would thus take all of the
West SIDE traffic to Fourth avenue local
stations between Thirty-third street and
City Hall inclusive, and would do away
with most OF the crowd'ng and confusion
now existing at Forty-second street The
northbound trains from City Hall to
Times SGuare would make the north
bound traffic over to the West Side and
these trains would also skip the Grand
Central Station. making no stop after
leaving Thirty-thi-d street until Times
Square was reached"
In communication to the Public Ser
vice Commission NJ. Everhart Smith,