The New York herald., 1922-05-14
HYLAN WILL OPPOSE
TRANSIT BOARDPLAN
| FOR new SUBWAYS
No Private Partnership
With City in Construction
of New Lines.
TIRED OF JUGGLING
Mayor Declares Flatly for
Municipal Ownership
and Operation.
SAYS QUEENS is IGNORED
President Connolly Explains
Why Borough Will Fight
Program.
SAYS QUEENS is IGNORED

Mayor Hylan's administration came
out fatty in revolt yesterday; as was
predicted, against the $21S,000.000 pro-
gram Of the Transit Commission for
new subway construction.
The Mayor declared himself abso
Iutely opposed to the city entering into
partnership with either the INTERIOR
ough or the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
| Company. When he was asked whether
| IN any circumstances the city could be
expected to accept the commissions
proposals for new subway lines Mayor
Hylan said:
ANY new lines to be constructed
with my permission will never be tied
up with the I. r. T. or the B. r. I.
We have had enough of these two sys-
TENS and their court proceedings. All
of them are against any decent treat
ment of the people of the city"
There must be absolutely no private
partnership and no private juggling. 1t
is costing the public about $lO.OOo,Oou
now, and there will be no more OF II
wi my permission. am for municipal
ownership and operation of all public
utilities"
Borough President Maurice Connolly
supplemented ,nis declaration with an
assertion that Queens had been prac-
tically ignored in the program or transit
expansion and that, in opposing IT, ne
would have the support OF many ol
that boroughs civic organizations
In providing for the short extension
from Corona to Flushing, ne CONTENDS,
the commission is giving the porousn
nothing new, but is merely renewing a
promise that should have been fulfilied
long ago.
O,Brien Takes Issue.
Corporation Counsel John r. Obrien
also announced that he expected to take
.s.,,a ,,,,h the Transit Commission in the
matter OF the tentative agreement mace
with the Hudson and Manhattan Raii-
road Company, fixing at S5o,Wo a year
,ha citv's compensation for the COM
ra,v,s Use of the franchise to operate
tha tube under Sixth avenue from
f,bristopher to Thirty-third streets,
,rbis figure was based upon estiHateo
gross earnings OF s1Oo0,ooo year. MI
S,pr,en thinks the city's compensation
sna,IS he approximately 100000 yearly.
a. adiourned hearing is to be heid py
~ commisslon next Tuesday when the
,,a.soration Counsel hopes to cross ex-
an,ne the commissions experts.
,r,hore is nothing in the Transit Com-
.,,ssion's program OF new subway con-
.,,a,ct,on. the comission holds. TO com-
ri, n in advance to operation by any
specific public service , colpora''o., =,
,,,sa,.a ;s still less. they MAINTAIN, 10
-,,,.a,,t the Mayors use of the phrase
.,,r,vate partnerships and private Jug
Cling" .,,at ,,,ost NJ tbe
.,.snoeed new lines and extensions could
he operated logically and effieientiy'
thew say only by one or inc Two pres
ent major transit companies. Inc pro-
tacted extension northward thfouge
CantraI park West and Seventh avenue
20 the Harlem River, for instance, Is an
s,,dent expansion of the Il. II. IT, sys-
,on, now in operation under Broadway
and seventh avenue. To place the pro.
1eoted new spur under other control
than that of the b. X. i. for operative
purposes would only be TO make the
exaction of dual fare inevitable. The
same NAV be said of most of the other
nroiects. as they arc practically all.
with the exception of the Eighth ave-
nue double deck trunk line. either eX-
tensions of present lines or connecting
links between them.
Hardness Sees Danger.
Transit Commissioner lie Roy L.
IIerkness commented yesterday upon
the perils involved In the city adminis-
tration embarking upon a course inde.
pendent of the operating companies arI
In arbitrary opposition to the transit
authorities constituted by the state.
IN. contract for the staten Island tun-
mel. at present planned by the city adj
ministraton as a separate enterprise,
he said. contains no provision 70 tic II
up with existing subways or surface
linss.
In the opinion OF Commissioner Hark-
ness that situation presents a striking
parallel with the construction OF the
spur from the Brooklyn Bridge under
the Municipal Building to Center street,
which is nothing else to-day. and never
will be. than useless hole In the
ground, a monument commemorating the
suuandering of nearly a million dollars
of city money sacrificed because of lack
Of harmonious procedure.
That subway spur. the Commissioner
said, was built ut cost of some $780,
900. bur with no contract betwesn the
city and the operating company provid-
Ing tho spur should be used After Il
had been completed. about ten years ago.
none OK the operating companies would
use II. and X has remained idle and
abandoned TO the present time.
The subway spur connecting the Cen
ter street loop subway with the elevated
tracks Of the Brooklyn Bridge was au-
thorized under the Mcclellan admins
fstration by the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment, under Chapter ~ of the
laws Of 1901. and Chapter 90 of the
laws OF 1907. Those chapters authorized
the Commissioner or Bridges OF the city
OF New York to contract such an extern
sion of the loop system FOR the better
accommodation Of passengers, vehicles