New-York tribune., 1922-12-15
4 Miles of Tracks
~ Must Hold Hearings
- .'sd Decide In 60 Days;
Fifhs Means Long Delay

=. Funsis Commission ssnt 70 the
~. !; galfasts yestsrdsy its gen
,,.s ard routes for the proposed
80 l,.rus-Amsterdsm AVENUE line,
-a,e for thirty-eight miles Of
- ,ri ssstins s7o.oOO.oOc.
!. - 4, ,sdEnsnt Of the Transit Com
'-.,..,,, shls is the hrst Of the main
-. hat WI have to be built. and
- -, .srssol Of transit for this city
-. IA ~ Hylsn Board Of Estimate
Ia csmror Smith after January
a, sssurs Of things II Will have
Ahksss at an early data
" asrssa NeAneuy said last night
- "A a reasonably prompt coop
- on ths part OF the Board OF
s.sss,. the aetuAl woYk should be
,,I,r way within nine months. II q
A.. for control Of transit policy de-
,,lsvs 70 the Board Of Estimate, a. Is
s.bsbla ns-e Is no telling when the
rrs VII begin.
PlGn Before Board To-day
Ths plan and route will come before
~ Board Of Estimate to-day. The
rats is from q point Of junction with
as marlborough at Hudson and
0tnberv streets 20 Overlook Terrace,
r,f ip2d Street and Fort Washington
lSsnee.
fts Eighth Avenue line is one Of the
efies Of seven new subway lines
rejseted By the Transit Commission
~ made public last May. In many re-
r,se.s 10 IL the most ambitious and i'm
rrttnt IN scope. The length Of the
NV route Is eleven miles north and
pg.h. To provide adequately for the
vtse that will be turned into II from
Ne various branch lines and feeders, the
arsaure win inoiuds for a part Of its
distance six separate tubes. and eventu.
sly eight, so that each may be built
lspsrately 20 meet requirements. There
vhl be two levels of tracks part Of the
uy.
Would Start Work at t7d Street
orvund probably will be broken in
he nelghborhood Of Forty-second
Street. and Eighth Avenue, whore d.
rset physical connection is TO be made
NTH the Greensboro subway. From
this point the southerly section Of the
new route will proceed as o four-track
liae through Eighth Avenue 20 Four
teenth Street, and as a two-treck line
A ILL., IL Ck.wakrwr Ct~..N Nh
ward from Forty-seeond Street II will
run az Q four-traek subway up Eighth
Avenue and heToss Fifty-SeYenth Street.
With underground access 20 the pro-
posed general station at Columbus
Circle, and up Amsterdam Avenue to
lo9d Street. Prom this point further
north II would run ss four-track
subway 10 ib6th Street, and thence
(still via Amsterdam Avenue) as a
three-traek subway 10 16eth Street and
Port Warrington Avenue, and along
Fort Washington Avenueriso Overlook
Tsrraee, near is2d Street.
The erst full section to be con-
structed will run from Forty-hrst
Street 10 Fourteenth Street. This Will
carry four tracks, 20 be placed In q
svo-deek subway carrying two tracks
saeh on the west side Of the avenue.
Evtntuaily four additional tracks will
similarly be built on the East Side. Al
Foty-frst Street will be the eonnee-
Ten With the Greensboro extension, and
a Fourteenth Street the connection
viA the Fourteenth Street-Eastern
District line 70 Brooklyn.
To Relieve West Side Line
The second building stage south on
EiFhth Avenue and Hudson Street Will
any the line from Fourteenth Street
r. Ae terminal at Chambers Street,
Vbsfe passengers desiring 20 60 fur
sssr south in Manhattan or across 20
R,oCklyn will transfer 20 the present
Broadway Seventh Avenue line.
The third step will cover the section
rsr.h, sgsin hs a two-deck, four-track
subway, on the westerly side Of Eighth
ATtnas to Fifty-ssventh Street, and