The New York herald., 1922-12-22
LONG ISLAND ROAD
URGES new SUBWAY
Jamaica Thirty third st.
Line Sought to Ease
Committing Traffic.
CONGESTION AT WORST
Samuel Rea's Proposals Go
X. to Hylan and Transit
Commission.
M'ANENY PROMISES HELP
Letter Of Appeal Says Hudson
Bridge Is Real Key to New
York's Problem.
M'ANENY PROMISES HELP

Samuel Rea. president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad. sent letters yester-
day to Mayor Hylan and the Transit
Commission pointing out the urgent
need Of q new subway from Jamaica
to the Pennsylvania Station at Thirty
third street to relieve the congestion
on the Long Island Railroad.
J Ralph Peters, president of the Long
4 Island Railroad, and Maurice e. Con-
molly. President OF Queens, took the
letters to the Mayor and the com
mission. Although the Mayor did not
receive Mr.. Peters he promised to take
up the matter within a week.
George McAneny. chairman OF the
Transit Commission. In reply to Mr.
Rea's communication said the commits
sion would be glad to consult with him
at the earliest convenient date. Mr..
HcAneny added that the commission
would like to consider the better hand
ling Of suburban traffic on all the rail.
roads entering this city.
~. East River Tunnel Needed.
Mr.. Rae's letter in part follows:
II note the recommendation of the
Transit. Commission to the Board Of
Estimate for very important and no
doubt necessary north and south rapid
transit line in Manhattan to take care
of the future traffic ! regret. however
to see no reference whatever to further
relief OF the rapidly growing traffic in
Queens. and a large portion of which
10 now imposed on the Long Island
Railroad, and therefore has been
handled in our Pennsylvania Station In
New York
I'VE have endeavored to keep before
the city and the Transit Commission the
necessity OF some relief for this section
of New York city on Long Island which
uses the Long Island Railroad and the
Pennsylvania Station. While additional
subway and IL" lines have been built
on this section Of Long Island and have
been of benefit. yet they are merely
transit lines and not rapid transit such
as Manhattan and Brooklyn enjoy.
THE limit Is being reached to the
amount of traffic that can be accommo-
dated by the Long Island Railroad and
the Pennsylvania Station and unless the
city takes care OF this nearby traffic
that company will be compelled at an
early date to rearrange its entire SER
VIC Ny transfer stations
either In Long Island City or Jamaica
or both. and run a shuttle service be-
tween them and the Pennsylvania sta
tion. or definitely announce that no
more trains can be accommodated in the
tunnels OF the station.
II further believe that you will never
solve the congested rapid transit prob
lem of Greater New York until you
conquer the Hudson by one or more
bridges Gas has been done with the
East River), with adequate accommoda-
tions for rapid transit and all kinds of
traffic, and that situation should not be
overlooked, although 1t requires cooper
ative action by the States and adjacent
municipalities OF New Jersey"
queens Problem Long In Mind.
Mr.. McAnanys reply In part said:
The Transit Commission, In pre-
pairing its plans for the subway extern
sions required for immediate relief. has
kept constantly in mind the problem In
Queens. as we'll as the need for relief
or suburban traffic entering the city
from other directions.
I'm recommending, however. an earIv
approval OF the projected north and
south lines upon Eighth and Amsterdam
avenues in the borough OF Manhattan
the commission has taken into account
the need for Increased trunk line facili-
ties throughout the central territory OF
the rapid transit system as an essential
preliminary to the building of further
feeder lines serving outlying territory.
The proposed Eighth avenue line In
Manhattan Is designed to connect with
the present Queens borough lines OF the
1nterborough system at Forty-first
street. as well as with the Fourteenth
Street-Eastern line of the u. r. T. sys-
tenn at Fourteenth street These con-
nections will permit OF very substantial
train Increases upon the rapid transl:
lines now serving northern Queens
points, and will also give greater fexi-
bility TO the Brooklyn elevated service
steps doubtless to be taken will be the
building OF a through trunk subway
from Jamaica to some new point In
Manhattan and then south.
I'm program proposed by tho Mayor
some two or three months ago Il was
suggested that two new subways be
built from Jamaica toward Manhattan.
The Mayors plan contemplated. now
ever, that these lines should end at
points on the Long Island side of the
East River. IL did not. apparently, con
template n new entrance to Manhattan,
which. I'm the judgment OF the commits
sion. Ia essential.
THE lines thus proposed, moreover.
were part OF a program upon which no
start was TO be made for fifteen years.
In the opinion of the commission the
situation requires an earlier and more
ADEQUATE solution"