New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

plan takes into consideration The fact
that vehicular and pedestrian traffic on
the street surface is increasing to such
an extent that it will soon be regarded
as inadvisable to continue surface pas
senger traffic, either on the main ar
terles of travel or on the main cross
streets, and that surface passenger
transportation must be replaced by ele-
waited or subway, with crosstown "tie
INES" operated on moving platform
device by shuttle car service. Because
OF tho fact that the congested section
OF Manhattan Borough has but eleven
north and south traffic arteries to serve
more than one hundred cross streets it
val! be necessary to resort to double
deck subway trunk lines in the central
traffic arteries that remain available" !"
Cnle1 Engineer Turner, in submit
ting the plans to Commissioner De-
laney, said that it has averaged ten
years from the inception of previous
general transit projects to the date of
the beginning OF operation, and there
lore 1t IS Important to begin the new
plans at once. The extensions and new
lines proposed for the twenty -five-year
construction program include:
New Trunk Lines-A new West Side
Manhattan trunk line, consisting of
iour tracks of the proposed eight-track
Amsterdam Avenue-Eighth Avenue
trunk line, extending from 155th Street
IN IN upper Manhattan to Twenty-third
Street in lower Manhattan. with col
lectlng and distributing branch ex-
tending from its northern extremity
through upper Manhattan and into the
Bronx via Fort Washington Avenue to
Spuyten Duyvil, and thence via Neither
land Avenue through the Riverdale sec
tlon, with provision at 155th Street for
e future easterly branch into and across
the Bronx, with branch from it's
southern extremity extending east
through Twenty-third Street to the
East River, which subsequently can be
carried into and across Brooklyn, and
with another branch extending south
down Hudson and Washington streets
to somewhere near the Battery. which
subsequently also can be extended to
Brooklyn.
A new East Side Manhattan trunk
line, consisting of four tracks of the
proposed six-track Madison Avenue
trunk line, extending from the Harlem
RIVER to Twenty-third Street, with no
collecting and distributing branch at
the northern extremity at the present
time, but with two-track collecting
and distributing branch extending from
the southern extremity down Fifth Ave-
nue. and through lower Manhattan to
some point near Park Place, the other
two of the four tracks terminating at
Twenty-third Street and Madison Ave
nue.
Moving Platforms - Three moving
platform subways to provide sufficient
transfer facilities across town between
all the north and south trunk lines, to
be located through Fourteenth Street,
Forty-second Street and Fifty-seventh
Street, from river to river.
Extensions-Ext of the Corona
branch of the Steinway Tunnel line
from its present terminus to Main
Street, Flushing.
Extension Of the Steinway Tunnel
limo from its proposed terminus at Sew
ehth Avenue and Forty-first Street
west through Forty-frst Street to a
connection with the proposed Amster-
dam Avenue-Eighth Avenue trunk line.
Iwo-track extension of the New York
Municipal Railway Corporation Broad
way-Fourth Avenue line from Fifty
ninth Street and Seventh Avenue up
Central Park West and Eighth or Sew
enth Avenue to the Harlem River.
Extension of the New York Municipal
Railway Corporation Broadway Fourth
Avenue line from a connection at