New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
BRIT. to Open
New Extensions
Sunday, Aug. l
Greensboro and Montague
Tunnel Trains Will Be
p a c e d in Operation;
Eastern P'kway Line Soon
$50, 900, 900 i'm Building
Opening of Two Tubes I'm
der East River Will Re-
qnire Hundreds of Cars

Plans for placing $36,000,000 worth
of new rapid transit construction in
operation are outlined in detail by
Transit Commissioner John H. Delaney,
who announced the arrangements yes
terday.
Service through the Montague Street
and Sixtieth, Street tunnels of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company will
be begun at 1901 o'clock next Sunday
morning, August |, aud through the
Eastern Parkway Nostrand Avenue line
of the Interbcrough system three weeks
later, if the Commissioners present ar
rangements materializc.
Initiation of service through the two
new rapid transit tubes under the East
River will greatly increase traffic facil-
tiles in Manhattan, Brooklyn and
Queens boroughs. 1t will mark the be
ginning of direct service over the re-
constructed Brighton Beach line by
way of the Broadway (Manhattan)
rapid transit route to Greensboro
Plaza, in Long Island City, and will
mean further extension OF the Coney
Island tive-cent fare service.
Will Open Eleven Stations
BY the opening of the Eastern Park
way -Nostrand Avenue subway route,
which is the principal Brooklyn line of
the Interborough Rapid Transit sys
tenn. five and one-haif miles of four
track subway will be added IN section
of Brooklyn not heretofore adequately
served. An elevated railroad extension
of the route along Livonia Avenue to
the Brownsville district will be opened
before the end of the year. The work
of erecting steel for this extension was
completed last week. The construction
of the Eastern Parkway Nostrand Ave
nue. route has cost the city $14,500,00O,
including fourteen stations, eleven Of
which Will be opened next month.
By the terms of an order Of Com
missioner Delaney, operation OF the
city owned lines. included in Rapid
Transit Contract No. j, between the
city and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company. viii go into effect when the
new tunnels are finished. One Of the
ficially initial operation is not to be
considered effective until the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit line is finished to
greensboro Plaza. With the begin
ming of initial operation the company
agrees to provide eight hundred
all steel cars for subway service. Six
hundred of these cars are completed,
and two hundred more are in course
of construction. Under the contract
the operating company purchases the
cars, and upon completion vests owner
ship to them in the city.
Steel Car Service TO Coney
Operating schedules for the new
service are to be approved by the
transit construction commissioner and
the Public Service Commission before
the extended lines are placed in serv-
ice. With the six hundred steel cars
now available, officials Of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company report
that a satisfactory all-steel car service
can be maintained between the Coney
Island terminal and Long Island City.
Owing to the fact that the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit steel cars are Of difc
ferent type than the subway cars of
the Interborough Company, it will not
be possible to institute joint operation
over the city-owned "L" structure in
Queens at this time. The Inter
borough Company was directed some
months ago to adjust the equipment
signals and third rail on the Queens
lines to Astoria and to Corona, so as
to admit Of joint operation by subway
trains CT the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
system and the Interborough system.
The Interborough Company, however,
declined to reconstruct the equipment,
and appealed to the court against the
order Of Commissioner Delaney. The
appeal will be heard in the Court of
Appeals this fall.
800 New Cars To Be Available
Under the order for passenger cars
for initial operation, the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company agrees to fur
nish six hundred and eighteen cars for
service on the Broadway-Four Ave
nue. route, thirty five for service on the
Culver Line, eighty-seven for the Four.
teenth Street Eastern line and
sixty for the Queens service. These
are the city-owned lines of the system.
Construction work is still in progress
on the Fourteenth et-Eastern line
and it is expected that the full eight
hundred cars required for legal opera
tion will be available before the Four
teenth StWet-Eastern line is com
pieted.
More than seven miles of route and
thirteen miles of trackage will be
added to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
system by the lines to be placed in
operation August /. This distance
the Brighton Beach line from Pros
trance to the tunnel; one and one
fourth miles from Montague Street
under the East River to Whitehall
Street station, in Manhattan, and one
and one-half miles from Lexington
Avenue and Sixtieth Street, Manhattan,
to greensboro Plaza. New subway
stations to be opened in Brooklyn in
clude those at Seventh Avenue, Allan
tic Avenue, DeKalb Avenue and Court
Street and the Queens Plaza station
in Long Island City. BY the new ex-
tension of service the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit city-owned mileage is as fol-
lows
Track
Borough. mileage
Mshnatlan .''.''... ...'......... 2904
tt'foohlSH bU. At
@uceHS l.9t
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Iotal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1851
$20,00O,000 Cost to City
In addition to the above, the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company operates
1920 miles of company owned rail-
road, which means total of 259.5l
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