New-York tribune., 1922-12-22
Wants SubwayImmediate-
r. TO Link Jamaica With
Manhattan and Relieve
tbe Traffic Congestion
McAneny Advocates
ThrOughTrunkLine
InU,ires What Financial
Assistance City Will
Receive From Railway

TIE capacity q tie AN"t As'o"N
p.g,o,J ard the Pennsylvania Termi-
al sor handling traffic into Queens
,ss Long Island through existing tun-
rails Is exhausted, Samuel Rea, presl-
Ssnt Of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
,sld IN identical letters sent yesterday
10 tho Transit Commission and Mayor
Bylan. Mr. Rea asks for new tun-
r,l Immediately under the East River
hiking Jamaica with Ninth Avenue,
Manhattan. Failing that, he says, the
Pennsylvania will be compelled to dis
esaiinus through service from the
Pennsylvania Station to Long Island
ssi handle the increasing trsfhc
through a shuttle.
Mr. Rea's letter says the Long ISL
and Railroad, which handled 6,224,429
psssengers during 1911. the first year
,fer the Pennsylvania Station was
completed, was required 20 transport
Gqi5.26e passengers in 1921, an In
crease Of more than 300 per cent. He
s3ds that the Pennsylvania Station
vss not built for rapid-transit service
and is franchise prohibits il from
carrying nearby rapid-transit traffic.
Limit Being Reached
There Is a limit" the letter con
tnues. which is rapidly being reached,
% the amount OF traffic that can be
accommodated by the Long Island Rail
road and by the station, and unless the
tty takes care Of this nearby traffic
that company will be compelled at an
early date 10 rearrange its entire sery-
Ice BIZ establishing transfer stations
ether IL Long Island City or at Ja-
pn.ea. or both, and run a shuttle serv-
Zee bsvben them and Pennsylvania
station, or definitely announce no more
trains ean be accommodated in the
tunnels OF station"
The Jamaica subway proposed by
NJ Rea Is now an absolute necessity,
No ,ays snd adds that IL Is up 70 the
tity 70 provide the nece.sRry, rapid
t11st fseiltles. 80
"a litter closes with w further
sgretion that bridges across the
Ha1soh % open up the adjoining New
Jersey territory offer the Only solu-
ton 10 the congested rapid transit
rroblem of greater New York and an
Ger Of the co operation Of The Penn
ylvania and Long Island railroads IN
blsns which the city may make to con-
5,fuet the Jamaica-Ninth Avenue tun-
tsl urged by Mr.. Rea.
Conference With Peters
George McAneny, chairman OF the
Ifanst Commission, replying to Mr,
R,a's letter, says the commission AL
ready has held n conference with
Ralph Peters. president Of the Long
Island Railroad, regarding the needs
OF the traffic situation between Long
irlsnd and the Pennsylvania Station.
He mentions the projected Eighth and
Amsterdam Avenue subway IN Manhat-
tan as permitting very substantial train
Increases upon the rapid transit lines
TOW serving northern Queens points
and says IL will also give greater ne1i-
bili,y to the Brooklyn elevated service
reaching Jamaica.
zone Of the next steps" Mr.. McA-
nenys letter says. doubtless will be
the building Of a through trunk sub
vty from jamaica 10 some new point
IN Manhattan and then south. The
commission is not. as yet, prepared,
however, to indicate the exact route
that, in its Judgment. should be taken
for such a subway, nor viii II be until
more progress has been made in the
working out Of co-ordinated plans.
Two Subways To Be Built
In program proposed by the Mayor
some two or three months ago 1t was
suggested that two new subways be
built from Jamaica toward Manhattan,
one following the Queens Boulevard TO
q point Of connection with Steinway
Tunnel line and another following
Metropolitan Avenue 70 a point OF con-
fection with the Fourteenth Street line.
The Mayors plan contemplated, how
ever, that these lines, so far as new
eeasiruction goes, should end ana
hat they should connect with the eX-
sting lines referred 10 az points on
~ Long Island side of the East River.
dd not, apparently, contemplate a
~ entrance 10 Manhattan, which, IN
esiudgment OF the commission, Is es-
"tlal. The lines thus proposed, more
gst we're part Of program upon
ma no start was 10 be made Tor nj
NN yurs. In the opinion OF the COM
l'nen the situation requires an ear
aut1d more adequate solution.
~ heAneny suggests a conference
"a Nr. Rea and Mr.. Peters, hnd
sed, II will be helpful also IL we may
nven some indication Of the degree
= which your company may be pre-
it'ed 70 contribute 20 the financing
Whatever measure Of suburban re-
"ti may be Devised -