The New York herald., 1922-05-12

for construction will cover the portion OF
the line extending from Forty street
TO Fourteenth. This will carry foul
tracks. but so placed as to permit the
addition OF another group OF tracks al
later date. Eventually eight tracks
are designed for the full trunk sections
of this route Those now to be built will
be located i'm a two deck four track sub
way, placed on the west side of the ave-
nue.. AT Forty-first street this will be
connected with the Queensborough ex-
tension, and at Fourteenth street by
means of two connecting tracks to Sixth
avenue and Fourteenth street. with the
Fourteenth treet-Eastern District line
! to Brooklyn.
These connections will afford a
through loop service between the
Queensborough and Fourteenth street
| lines, incidentally opening up ons of the
most important sections of Manhattan
to either.
| "(b) The second building stage south
on Eighth avenue will carry the line
from Fourteenth street 60 terminal
station at Chambers street, where pas
aengers desiring to go further south in
Manhattan or to Brooklyn will transfer
to the Broadway-Seventh avenue line.
Relieving Upper West Side.
"(3) The third step will cover the Sec
tion north. again as a two deck -four
! track subway, on the westerly side OF
Eighth avenue to Fifty-seventh street
and thence by way OF Amsterdam ave-
nue. to 10Sd street. At this point the
traffic OF Lenox avenue branch of the
existing scubway can be diverted to the
| new line. thereby providing for the inn
mediate relief OF the upper west side OF
Manhattan through turning over the ex-
listing Broadway-Seventh avenue line en-
tirely 20 its service.
"(d) As fourth and final step the
line will be continued on four track
single level up Amsterdam avenue to
155th street and from this point. with
three tracks, up Fort Washington ave-
nue. to 1S1st street. This fourth unit
will provide the further facilities sc
badly needed through the densely built
apartment territory that has developed
in upper Manhattan as the result Of the
building of the first subway. 1t would
provide this territory with an express
service beginning at 155th street and
running the full distance south to Four.
| teenth street.
THE estimated cost of the Eighth ave-
nue. line by sections would he: (al
/ Sf2 900. 900: OBJ, $7.500.000. (c)
| s44. .0O0. 900: (d). SEC, .O00--a total OF
| $500. 900. Sections (a) and (b) would
take little over three years to COM
plete; sectiEis (c) and td) four years.
"Tt is proposed. incidentally, to de-
velop a general concourse station at Co
| lumbus Circle, where the lines of che
| Amsterdam avenue. the Broadway-Cen
trail Park West connection and the pres
ent subway will converge, all within ar
area of two or three blocks. This would
bring the service Of practically every
part of the city to Columbus Circle and
materially stimulate the development of
this increasingly important section of
Manhattan.
while the brilding OF the Amsterdam
avenue line to Washington Heights. and
the extension of the Broadway line to
Harlem. will provide the west side OF
Manhattan for some time to come with
the facilities 1t so badly requires, the
crosstown line through Brooklyn. con-
Meeting with all of Manhattan north OF
the Oueensborough Bridge connection.
will. In turn. greatly relieve the present
pressure on the east side lines. The pro-
vision made at various points In the new
plan for cross connections. affecting
nearly every line in the city. will IN turn
permit a much improved distribution OF
the general traffic. and aid the better
development of the city itself.
Cost of &2Is, s,OOO.OOo.
The several new routes projected will
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