The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-14
$211,OOO,OOO PORT
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Gustav Lindenthal Suggests
Belt Railroad in New
Jersey.

Gustav Lindenthal. consulting en-
gineer, who has made n special study OF
the matter for years. yesterday pre-
scented to the New. York. New Jersey
Por. and Harbor Development Commits
sion n plan for the development OF the
terminal and transportation facilities or
the Port Of New York. The estimated
cost Of the work. exclusive OF riverfront
improvements and shipping piers. would
De about S31i.000,o 900. Tho plan has
these features:
% A belt railroad In New Jersey run
ming from near Perth Amboy in semi
circle to the Hudson River. near the
present Underclifr railroad terminal. and
also including the railroad on Staten
Island connected by tunnel under Staten
Island Sound. This belt line would In
tersect all railroads in New Jersey.
(2) A classification yard in the New
Jersey meadowe accessible TO all rail-
roads and to freight motor trucks from
which local freight to Jersey City and
Manhattan would be distributed In car
loads and lots smaller than carloads.
(S A multiple track high level bridge
across the North River.
tp An elevated railroad. connecting
with the bridge. and having two decks.
down the river front IN Manhattan with
ket halls.
(S About twenty ms tet halls be-
tween the Battery and Ir God.
(6 Tunnels under the North River To-
Gated near Battery place and crossing
over to the Jersey Central yards and
connecting with the West Side elevated
railroad, thus forming with the existing
tracks In New Jersey loop back to the
distribution yard in the meadows.
lNrtx 1,A h-td o
and tho New York Central Railroad
north of Fifty-seventh street.
49, \ union passenger station in Man
haitian for all the railroads In New Jer-
sey. including the Pennsylvania Rail.
| road, and with room for some trains OF
| the New York Central Railroad.
90 A conveyer or moving platform
from the bridge in the subway under
| F'fty-seventh street. connecting all the
| existing elevated and subway lines In
Manhattan running north and south with
| the bridge and the local lines in New
| Jersey.
uO) Rapid transit tracks for con.
| Meeting with the Ninth avenue elevated
| lines and two surface tracks connecting
with tracks on Fffty-ninth street.
IDA pair OF tunnel tubes from Green
Vile, y. J.. TO Bay Ridge. L. l.. about
three miles long. TO eerve as the last link
in an all rail- freight line along the At
lantic seaboard from Maine TO Florida.
12) A two track tunnel under Audu-
bon Park to connect the river tracks OF
the New York Central with the tracks of
its Putnam division and it's Harlem d.
vision, and so with the New Haven sys-
TEN, giving another all rail through line
for passengers and freight between New
England and New Jersey.
G3) A great power plant to supply
electrical power for all transportation
lines, electrical locomotives 10 be used
| everywhere.
New York States special committee
will meet Gov. Edge and the New Jersey
| legislative committee ard the New York
New Jersey Port and Harbor Develop
ment Committee in the Chamber OF Com
merce Building al II o'clock tomorrow
| to consider the tentative draft Of amend
ments TO the Treaty OF 1894 between the
| two States determining the rights and
| obligations of the States In and about
New York Bay.
| The members OF the New York com.
mittee are Gov Smith. Lieut.. Gov. Wall
ker. Senators Walters. Sage, Foley and
| Burlingame. Speaker Sweet and Assem-,
! blyinen Adler. Machold, Martin and Don
ohue. They will be accompanied by AT.
torney-General Newton and Assistant
| Corporation Counsel McGoldrick.