New-York tribune., 1920-01-02
Commissioners Delaney Calls
Conference for Jan. 20
to Decide Method of
Relief at AID Street
To Study Five Proposals
New Tunnels and Other
Plans Are To Be Con-
sidered at Open Meeting

John n. Delaney, Transit Construc-
tion Commissioner, announced yester-
day that he will hold a public meeting
to discuss several projects for read
justing. redistributing or divertine the
heavy rapid transit passenger traffic
in the central business part Of Manhat-
tan. The meeting, called in response
to petitions and proposals for relieving
the strain upon the present transfer
points in the territory between Thirtieth
and Forty second streets. Lexington
and Eighth avenues, will take place at
the Office of the commissioner, 49 La
fsyette Street, on Tuesday, January
20, at $3.50 p. m.
Five different proposals, involving
traffic in the most congested area Of
the city, are to be discussed. They are: {:
Construction Of Route 35, of Con-
tract 3, between the city and the IN
terborough Rapid Transit Company,
providing for the completion of the
sc-called Steinway Tunnel Route,
under Forty second Street to Eighth
Avenue.
Substitution Of Route CT for Route
30, so as to divert the Steinway Tun-
mel extension under Bryant Park to
Forty-frst Street at Sixth Avenue
point west of Seventh Avenue.
Moving Platform One Proposal
Construction Of moving plat
form under Forty-second Street from
1hlrd or Lexington avenues to eighth
Avenue as substitute for the ex-
isting shuttle service between the
Grand Central and Times Square.
A subway "lcop" providing for a
ciai trains, to use one or both local
tracks of the Fourth and Seventh
avenue subways between Forty-sec-
ond Street and Thirtieth or Thirty
first Street, one or two of the ex-
isting tracks Under Forty second
Street and ore OF two tracks to be
constructed under Thirtieth or
ThiTty-frst Street from Fourth to
Seventh Avenue
a through express service from
the lEterhorough East Side Subway
line at Fourteenth Street to the In
terborougii West Side Subway at
Seventy-second Street by way of
rev tunnel under present subway
tracks. This service to be without
step at Forty ysecond Street
Heavy Traffic at Forty-second Street
Ticket sales during the year ending
iune 80 at stations at FOrty-second
Street and in territory msdiately be-
iow were unusualiy heavy, according
to reports filed with the Transit Con-
struction Commissioner
Neither the westerly end of the
original Steinway tunnel route nor
.i1e extension to Eighth Avenue. known
as Route No. SO, has been constructed.
work was. not undertaken because Of
she uncertainty of the effect that the
completion Of the al" system of sub
way lines would have upon traffic at
Forty second Street. While construc-
tio'l was held in abeyancc further in
gineecing ana traffic studies were made
and modification suggested.
While traffic facilities in Forty
ont Street were under discussion e
proposal was made by the Continuous
Transit Securities Company for the in
stailation Of moving platform to take
the place of the shuttle system.
Underground Loop Proposed
Suggestion for the establishment OF
an underground loop embracing the
territory from Forty second Street to
Ihirtieth Of Thirty-irst Street, Seventh
70 Fourth Avenue, has been advanced
oy the Thirty-fourth Street Board oi
Trade. This loop, according to the
members Of the Thirty-fourth Stree,
district, would provide direct connec-
ton by subway, without change, be-
tween the Grand Central Terminal and
The Pennsylvania Station; would pro.
vide an easy means Of transferring be-
tween the East and West Side sub.
ways, and would relieve congestion al
the Times Square and Grand Centra
shuttle terminals.
Still another plan for diverting traf
fe from the Grand Central Tc1nina
has been offered by group advocating
the transformation Of the Thirty-thire
street local station on the Fourth Ave
nue subway to an express station.