The New York herald., 1922-08-28
s25,ooo,ooo IN BUSES
Whole Thing to Be Oper-
ated by City at a Single
Five Cent Fare.
WORK TO BEGIN sAT ONCE
Mayor Says IL and Surface
Cars Will BE Eliminated by
New Competition.

Mayor Hylan's long heralded plan
for new subways and other transit ia
cilities for the city was announced
yesterday at the City Hall and will be
presented to the Board Of Estimate on
Wednesday. September 6.
$600,00O,00o on thirty-five new subway
routes. extensions and tunnels, the re-
capture of the West Side subway line
now being operated by the INTERIOR
ough; the recapture Of the whole of
the subway system operated by the
B. r. T. under the dual subway con-
tracts; the operation of all of these
by the city at single fare; the estab-
lishment of a $25.0O0,00 bus system
to feed ths subways, and the gradual
elimination Of all elevated and surface
car lines through disuse.
Acknowledgment is made in the
general statement that some legisla-
ton will be necessary, but the matter
of financing the construction pro-
gram, which is to cover a period of
fifteen years, is dismissed more or less
casually on the assumption that rev.
enue from recaptured lines will re-
lease s50o.oo0,0O0 of city bonds from
the debt limit consideration and that
sums available within the debt limit
and the revenue resulting from in
creased assessments will do the rest.
The announcement of the plan was
made b. John +. Sinnott, the Mayors
secretary, who gave out for publication
a twelve page general statement as tc
the rlan. what 1t would accomplish anc
what its execution would cost, a separate
document setting forth the proposed
new routes In detail. third document
giving twenty-seven salient features
of the plan and a fourth paper giving
the order of construction OF the many
projects.
Plans Work "nt Oncc.o
In some OF it's chief physical fea
tures the Mayors plan resembles that OF
the Transit Commission, though 1t is IA,
more elaborate and the lines as pro.
posed by the Mayor are longer ano
reach greater stretches of territory
The two principal differences are in the
proposal TO recapture one OF the great
trunk lines OF the present Interborough
system and In the proposal that the
whole of the system planned shall be
operated by the city. The assertion Il
fatty made by the Mayor that the city
can recapture, no matter what the at.
that the Commission in such a move
would merely be the agent OF the city
II is considered likely that there will
be a controversy over this point.
One of the outstanding character.
istics of the statement issued by the
Mayor is that he does not use the word
may at all, but definitely says thai
the city "will" do this and do that. He
further asserts that the plan will not
only be adopted but that work on the
proposed new lines will commence vir.
tually at once and that much of the
work, as well as the recapturing of the
lines at present privately operated, viii
be accomplished before he goes out o.
Office.
The statement does not read like ar
engineers report nor a technical dis
cussion. 1t Is a mixture of construc
criticism OF the dual subway contracts
the Transit Commission. Gov. Miller
the Republican legislature and Georg,
McAneny. 1t contains also many state
ments as to the purposes to be accom-
plished, with several references to tht
five cent fare and "the longest ride
obtainable anywhere on earth for Q
nickel"
The plan includes" says the Mayor.
statement. new subway trunk lines II
and 10 all boroughs. other new subway
lines, extensions 10 existing lines and g
bridge and tunnels uniting all boroughs
in all. thirty-fve new subway routes
extensions and tunnels. These new
rapid transit lines will bring every
part OF the Greater City into direct and
Immediate touch with every other part
and will provide real rapid transit foi
many years TO come. II will provide
steady and continuous employment foi
a large part OF the city's population and
will spread prosperity TO all boroughs
1t will bring New York to the pinnacle
OF social, civic and commercial great
ness.
THE city intends 10 spend 5000.
600. 900 during tho next fifteen years &c
construct and equip these new rapid
transit lines. 1t intends TO begin It's
first construction Immediately soor
as the necessary detailed plans can be
prepared by the engineers--and II In.
tends to have new subway lines in opera.
tion before the expiration Of the term
OF the present elected city officials. The
construction OF these new rapid transit
lines will go on at the same time in all
boroughs.
No Partners In Enterprise.
"These new rapid transit lines will be
constructed by the city itself The
city will have no partners in this gi-
gantic enterprise and 1t will entertain
no partnership In the operation of any
OF these lines when finished. II will
be exclusively city undertaking. The
city will become the sole operator OF
all of these new lines and or existing
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