The New York herald., 1921-12-18
Staten Island Tube and
Link From L. /. Sound to
Ocean Are OIL Program.
42D STREET TO BENEFIT
Hylan and Craig Invited to
Discuss Financing Projects
in Meeting Tomorrow.

The Transit Commission expects
about the middle of the current week
to make public it's matured plans for
new subway building. which will in
vo!ve an aggregate cost for construc-
ton work alone of about $2O0,00O,O
exclusive of equipment.
These plans will be restricted to
routes which the commission regards
as Of the most vital Importance and
upon which it believes work should be
begun Immediately, unless the city's
rapid transit facilities are to be per-
mitted to drift hopelessly behind its
ever growing requirements. Six or
seven major operations will be dealt
with, each Of which is esteemed Of
paramount Importance TO some sec
ton of the city
Among those which. it is believed,
have received precedence in the judg-
ment of the commission are these:
Extension Immediately Of the Forty
Sc cond street subway, through which the
shuttle operates all the way from Lex
ington to Eighth avenue. and ultimately
from river to river, affording stairway
connections with the East Side and West
Side elevated roads. The immediate cut
ting through of the Forty-second street
tunnel from It's present eastern and west
arn terminals all the way to Lexington
avenue on the east and to Eighth avenue
on the west will eliminate the long walks
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OF the shuttle by passengers using the
Queens extension and the East and West
Side subways. At Eighth avenue the
tunnel win connect with the projected
subway 10 be operated under that
t. oroushfare some time in the future.
In connection with this operation, it is
believed the commissions plans will in
clude moving platforms on either side of
the tunnel under Forty second street.
directly beneath the surface sidewalks.
Daniel Turner, consulting engineer to the
commission, is an enthusiastic advocate
OF this device. The idea Is TO have the
moving platforms extend from the Grand
Central Terminal TO Seventh avenue.
&, eat part OF the local crosstown traffic
at that point
Each platform is to be built in three
units. moving respectively at the rates Of
three, six and nine miles an hour. the
one series travelling eastward and the
other westward. Passengers may choose
their speed simply by stepping from one
moving surface to another moving more
rapidly I'm the same direction.
Scarcely second in Importance the COM
mission regards the construction of the
new subway to Staten Island. It is in
tended exclusively for passenger train
operation. and is not to be confused with
the projected tube for the carrying OF
freight between Manhattan and the new
staten Island ocean piers.
In Brooklyn Borough i. is thought
precedence has been given by the com
mission to two major projects. The first
OF these is the Ashland place extension.
All operation for sinking the present
tracks Of the Fulton street elevated line
down into the Fourth avenue subway at
Ashland place and Fulton street, thus
greatly relieving congestion in the heart
of the borough.
Tube From "sound to Ocean"
The second is the building OF the
Brooklyn crosstown subway to link Long
Island City with the Brighton Beach
line at Prospect Park, thus completing
the route from Sound to ocean" This
will give a direct through rapid transit
service between Brooklyn ard Queens.
At present passengers bound for Brook
lyn from Corona. Astoria and other
points in Queens have 20 go through
Manhattan by way of the Queens extern
sion and thence 10 Brooklyn. The con-
struction of this link. connecting the
rlatbush section with Long Island City.
will compile the rim of the great circle
girdling the city's zone Of fast transit
facilities.
The financing OF these great projects
presents problems concerning which the
Transit Commission were desiTous of
consulting with Mayor Hylan and Comp
troller Craig. II was partly with that IN
view that Chairman McAneny on Friday
afternoon addressed to both city officials
a letter which read
Desiring TO cooperate fully with the
city authorities In working out the re-
habilitation OF tho traction situation.
which II has had under consideration
for some weeks past, the Transit Com
mission would be very glad to have the
beneft oc your views upon the plan II
has prepared In outline a copy Of which
has been previously communicated 10
you, as well as your possible sugges-
tions with relation 10 any alternative
measures that, In your judgment. might
speedily relieve the present deplorablc
conditions.
Particularly the commission would
be glad to have the facts and your point
OF view with relation TO the city's finan-
cial ability not only TO meet the needs
of the present situation, but 20 provide
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