New-York tribune., 1922-12-10
Harriss Visions
Auto Highways
Spanning City
Suggests 800 Foot Cross
town Boulevard To Be
Built in Form of Invest
ment by the Municipality
Through Ways TO Suburb:
Sees As, 100000 in Meirop-
oils in 200 Years; Man
haitian Devoted to Trade

New York with population Of 49,
o0O,0 900, with a warehouse and loft zone
stretching from tho Battery 10 Forty.
second Street, a financial district that
begins At Times Square and reaches to
Fifty-ninth Street, a fashionable shop
ping center between Flfty-ninth and
12bth streets, and all Westehester,
Queens and Long Island as It's residen-
tial distriet-this Is the picture Of the
city 200 years from now drawn yes
terday By Special Deputy Police Com
missioner John A. Hsrriss.
Commissioner Harriss, who Is the
traffic expert OF the Police Department
indicates IN a statement the provisions
which no believes viii be necessary to
accommodate this great increase In
poouistion. His plan calls for scores
Of great traffic arteries built on an i'm
mcnse scale and at different levels
special express highways for swift
moving traffic and dozens Of bridges
connecting New Jersey and tsusheast-
ern New York State west Of ths hud-
Fon with the new metropolis, as well
as other new bridges spanning the Eas'
and Harlem rivers and providing traf-
hc arteries to Queens, wcstehester sno
Long Island. Ocean passenger liners
will berth in Long Island terminals
and the Hudson River piers will be
used for commercial ocean traffic only
Commis aioner Hsrriss insists that II
is necessary for the city 10 begin AZ
once 10 plan FOR the increase IN popu-
iation which he estimates will come
during the next century and partieu..
larlv 10 prepare for the increase OF
/ the next twenty-five years. To meet
/ The Immediate problems the Commits.
| sioner suggests a boulevard $50 rect
wide from the Hudson River TO the
past River. This will neeessitate the
wreekine OF 200 feet OF buildings from
river 10 river, at cost Of approxi-
mately S500 100000.
How Plan May Be Paid For
This expenditure can be made IN
! the form Of an investment By the cry
and return on the investment can be
proyided for by the increased assessed
valuation on the north and south sides
/ % The express boulevard and all OF
the properties adjacent thereto says
the statement. .L
"For half a mile north and south
there would be a substantial increase
| In the realty values throughout the
length OF the express boulevard.
"The boulevard would be arranged
as follows Fee,
sidewalks. 20 feet vide. ......... '''''' IA
Westb,und trAfllc. next 70 onrS'''''' 10
| Eastbound tranlc. next 20 enIo. .,..iiii.,..
Wesfbound express tranic. "a
100
9TH. express traffic would pass un,
der all OF the north and sout7 oouna
streets, with ramps 10 sixth hNrnss
express highway and an artistic ram
| Avenue viaduct -. ..
"The turning Of yehieular tramc or
crossing Of pedestrians woulo DC pII
mitted at street interseetions onyt
( Theater zones would be AZ the esss
and west ends Of the boulevard, VIZ M,.n
automobile terminals and parhhs
hotels. Beneath the boulevard p.osisi
sion would be made for the parking VI
cars. IL Z, ho
deen,ed necessary, the express area OF
Io0 feet could be covered with an ar
Hstie concrete roadway 100 feet wac
"This express highway would con
,.et with the elevated express ni6n-
wav on either side OF the present oih.n
Avenue elevated road, each forty iees
wide, as originally suggested oy in'
~Tbus a belt would be provided
starting on the upper West Side nno
upner East Side, proceeding oorn
town direct or crossing either way ~
hyoad boulevards into Brooklyn ana
Queer, tbe frst 70 be located between
Fortv-.eeond Street and fifty-ninln
Sweet SECOND between 1wenty-tn,re
Street and Forty-second Street, tniIa
hstween Fourteenth Street and I~en-
t--third- street and fourth between
Chambers Street and Fourteenth street
a. the center Of serious congebtion
Ia. d, the zone between Forty-secono
Street and Fifty-ninth Street and as tnis
Condition has become acute and as ,nis
ssrfion requires immediate reiiei' "
sng0eSted that the other cross Doole'
vssds be not considered at this time,
a. n IA lust likely that within the next
twentv-fve years the entire lower sec
tjon Of the city may be adeauattiy Pro
vided for, as I am firmly Of the pc
lief that Manhattan Island below four-
teenth Street will be given over 20 st2,, s,,
aoe and warehouses provision ano viii
eventually be forced to utilize the large
Office buildings downtown Tor this pui-
pose.