New-York tribune., 1922-05-12
FourTrack Line for Manhatt

$4,000 900.
Four-Track Line for Manhatt
= The Eighth Avenue Amste rdau
avenue line would, n many respect
be the most important and the most
ambitious in scope. Beginnine at a
point in Forty-hrst Street, tween
Seventh and Eighth avenues. where
connection is to he made with tho
Queensborough subway. ground for
which was broken last week, it VIII
run south on n four track line through
highth Avenue to Fourteenth Street,
and as Il two-track line to Hudson and
Chambers streets. Northward from
forty-hrSt Street it will run as 2 four
track subway up Eighth Avenue and
across Fifty seventh Street, with uu-
ucrground access to Columbus Circle,
and up Amsterdam Avenue 20 103d
Street, thence as four-track subway
to 155th Street, still via Amsterdam
Avenue, but as Z three-track subway
to l59th Street and Fort Washington
Avenue, and thence to 1Slst Street.
u Is proposed to construct the
Eighth Avenue line by sections, each
capable Of linking up upon Its compile
ton with some part Of the transit sve-
tenn now in use, and IN accordance with
the following program:
ts) The first section recommended
for construction will cover the portion
Of the line extending from Forty-first
Street 70 Fourteenth. This will carry
four tracks. but so placed as 20 permit
the addition of another group Of tracks
at later date. Eventually eieht tracks
are designed for the full trunk sections
Of this route. Those now to be built
will be located IN a two deck. four
track subway, placed on the west side
Of the avenue. At Forty-frst Street
this will be connected with the Queens
borough extension, and st Fourteenth
Street. by means Of two connecting
tracks 30 Sixth Avenue ard Fourteenth
Street, with the Fourteenth street
Eastern District line, TO Brooklyn.
Terminal at Chambers Street
CO. The second building stage south
on Eighth Avenue Will carr: the line
from Fourteenth Street to a terminal
station at Chambers Street. where pas
sengers desiring to go further south
in Manhattan or TO Brooklyn VIII
transfer TO the Broadway Seventh Ave
nue. line.
tc) The third step vii cover tho sec
ton north. again as twodeck, four
track subway, on the westerly side Of
Eighth Avenue to Fiftv-serenth Street.
ana thence BY WeT OF Amsterdam Ave
nuo to 1O3d Street.
(d) AS fourth and final step the
line vii be continued on four track.
single level, up Amsterdam Avenue to
Io6th Street, and from this point. with
three tracks. up Fort Washington Ave-
nue to lS1st Street.
Tho estimated cost Of the Eighth
Avenue line by sections would be- (a)
sl2,ooo,ooo; o. s7,50o,Q00 (cl s24,-
100000; (d) s26,o0o,OOo a total Of
S6o 900 Sections Ia and Oh would
take 6 little over three years to COM
plete; sections (c) and CD four wears.
Concourae at Columbus Circle
It IS proposed. iuciden q lIy. to develop
general concourse station IT Colgm-
bus Circle, where The lines OF .Ae
Am sterdam Avenue, the Broadway Cow
tral Park West connection and the
present subway viii converge ali within
an area Of two or three blocks.
The total estimated cost of the
construction of the seven projects in
view is, in round numbers, S1T4,0o0ooo
With the addition TO this figure OF the
overhead costs OF adm nistration and
engineering and the amounts Of interns,
on the funds employed, pad arlng
construction, estimated at $44 l 20 il