New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Plan Subway
Lines to Cost
200 Millions
Commission to Outline Inn
mediate Extensions, Con-
Meeting Routes and Nov
ing Sidewalk This Week

nc JIdHSIL COMMISSION expects TO
make public, about the middle of this
week, its plans for the Immediate de-
velopment of transit routes in the city
at cost of about $500 100000. Man
haitian, Brooklyn and Richmond lines
are included in the plans
Extension of the subway under For
ty-second Street clear through to Lex
lngton Avenue on the cast and to
Eighth Avenue on the west, and the
construction Of moving sidewalks par
allel to the tracks between the Grand
Central Terminal ard Times Square
are among the improvements which the
commission believes must be under
taken at once.
The extension of the subway tracks
beneath Forty-second Street will elm
mate the long and tortuous walk which
shuttle passengers have to take now to
reach through train, and the moving
SIDEWALKS, 1T is believed, will do much
70 relieve the congestion. The moving
Sidewalk VIII be in three strips, one Of
hour, one at six miles and one at nine
miles. . '''"o
Eighth Avenue is fixed as the west
ern rn terminus of the Forty-second
street tunnel for the reason that the
plans OF the commission call for the
eventual construction Of q subway be-
meath that thoroughfare.
Staten Island Subway
Another Improvement which the COM
mission deems to be of vital Importance
is the construction of a subway for
passenger service to Staten Island.
tor Brooklyn the plans call for low
erlng the Fulton Street elevated tracks
70 the Fourth: Avenue subway at Ash
land Place and the construction of a
cross-borough subway to connect Long
Island City with the Brighton Beach
line at the. Prospect Park station.
IT was IN connection with methods 8
OF financing such construction that the
commission asked Mayor Hylan and
Comptroller Craig, Friday, to appear
before it,
The. qualification, "as soon as nos
sible," in Mayor Hylan's announcement
that the city intended to get another
bus company to operate on Fifth Ave
nue. at a fiye-cent fare means, in fact.
a decidedly indefinite period, it was
pointed out yesterday.
10 the objection raised in testimony
before the Transit Commission last
Thursday that adequate busses could
not be operated at less than a ten-cent
rare was added yesterday legal OBJ
structlon. According to records, the
FlIth Avenue Coach Company possesses
exclusive and perpetual rights to the
key sections Of the thoroughfares on
which it operates.
Court Decisions Obstacle
Recent court decisions were referred
to as another element with which the
administration would have to contend.
1t was pointed out that jitney lines in
Brooklyn had been restrained from op
Grating on routes parallel to those of
streetcar companies holding fran
chises, and that this undoubtedly
would hold true in the event the city
sought to offer competition to the
ruth Avenue service.
Still another obstacle the CITY would
have to reckon with would be the re-
qulrement of procuring from the Tran
SIT Commission certificate of con-
venience and necessity. While the
commission has under consideration. in
connection with it's plan, the use of
busses as a feeder adjunct to the re-
organized transportation system, it is
known to be opposed to extended bus
operation for long-haul traffic
No Response to Invitation
Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig
made no response to the commissions
invitation to attend the hearing to-
morrow 1t was doubtful whether they
would accept. Although the commits
sion was placed in the position of hay
ing to subpoena George A. WhaIen.
Commissioner of Plant and Structures
in order to assure his attendance to-
morrow, this course will not be fol-
lowed with the Mayor and Comptroller,
according to unofficial information.
The commissions letter inviting the
CONTINUED on paee three)