New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
Hylan's Subway Plans Will
Cost 900 Million to Perfect

fslaEds. This bridge will provide di.
rect rapid transit from the upper sec.
4 tions CT the city into Queens ard
Brooklyn and vice versa. 1t will aisc
relieve the heavy motor traffic now
OF, the Fifty-ninth Street {Queensboro)
4 Bridge and 1t will provide easy access
for the farmers Of Long Island TO the
new terminal market, costing many
/ millions, which the city will build at
the lower end of the Bronx.
Brooklyn transit congestion will also
be greatly relieved by the construction
OF new subway lines, and the proper
routing of these new subway lines will
tend to perpetually eliminate transit
lcongestion in all boroughs.
New Main Subway Routes
"The plan includes:
"A new subway trunk line from the
uppermost part OF Washington Heights
/ through Broadway. Amsterdam and
Tenth avenues to the Battery and
Brooklyn connecting with existing
subway, which will be extended from
Seventh Avenue and F'ifty-ninth Street
to Sevsnty-second Street and Amster-
dam Avenue), with extensions tc
Yonkers and Fort George;
IA new subway trunk line from 161st
| Street and Third Avenue, Bronx
/ through First Avenue and the lower
east side to Park Row and Brooklyn;
with extensions in the Bronx through
Webster Avenue and Boston Road;
| "a new subway crosstown trunk line
from Long Island City connecting with
the city's rapid transit lines there,
through Greenpoint, williamsburg and
| Brooklyn, to Manhattan and Goney
Island:
/ -,
| Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, to Man
| haitian; and an extension to existing
| line to Jamaica;
| through Hicks Street, Prospect Avenue
Fort Hamilton Parkway and Tenth
Avenue to Ninetieth Street, Bath
| Beach;
| Three new subway lines in Queens
running to Jamaica and Jamaica Bay
| Zone Of these through the entire length
| Of the Queens Boglysvard), and sub
way through Flushing to Bayside and
College Point;
IA bridge over the East River from
| Astoria to the Bronx and Harlem. con-
Meeting the Queens subways with the
new subways through 125th Street and
| through st. AIMS Avenue, Bronx, to
1 connect with new and existing sub"
| ways;
"a subway through Utica Avenue,
Brooklyn, to Jamaica Bay;
1 "And extensions of existing rapid
] transit lines that make a complete
| system of real rapid transit in evecy
borough;
"The city will also build six tunnels
as integral parts of these all-borough
| subway routes, and it will build a
branch from the Fourth Avenue
| (Brooklyn) subway connecting with the
tunnel to Staten Island, which is now
under way Richmond Borough will
/ also be served by an extensive system
of buses to connect with the new
tunnel.
| Six New Tunnels in Plan
"The new tunnels which the city will
build will run from the Bat
! terry to Atlantic Avenue, Brook
lyn; from Dover Street, Manhat-
tan, to Fulton Street, Brooklyn;
from College Point, Queens, to Clason's
Point, Bronx; under the Ship Canal
(Harlem River), between Manhattan
and the Bronx; under Newtovn Greek
and under the Gowanus Canal. Those
/ tunnels are in addition to the tunnel
which the city is building to Staten
| Island.
One End of City to Another, Five Cents
"When the new subway lines planned
by the city are finished, a person will
be able to travel for a single fve-cent
fare from any part of one borough to
virtually any part of any other borough
on a city-operated as we'll as city-owned
train.
Bus Operation Linked With Subways
| aNot only does the city administra-
tion intend to develop the city in all
| boroughs through construction Of new
rapid transit lines, but it intends also
to put into operation a comprehensive
| subway routes as we'll as with exist
ing lines. This bus program has been
fully worked out and is before the
Board of Estimate. Thus far corpo-
ration controlled Republican state Leg
islature has prevented the city from
operating it's own busses by refusing
to enact. legislation empowering the
city to purchase them. Until such per-
mission Is obtained from the Legis-
lature the city will be compelled to
continue the present makeshift opera
city intends to own and operate only
the most modern type of bus and to
spend $25 100000 to install a city-wide
bus system.
IF Legislature responsible to the
/ people is elected next fall the city will
obtain the legislation necessary to en-
able it to begin the immediate opera
ton of modern city-owned busses
These busses will provide the proper
kind of surface transportation and will
relieve surface congestion. They will
be operated in conjunction with the
subways and will displace the existing
obsolete surface car lines.
I'm London, buses carry about
2,5O0, 900 passengers a day. All tke
surface cars in Greater New. York
carry only little more than that mum.
Der of passengers. With few thou
sand busses on the city streets, ownet
and operated by the City OF New York
/, surface car operation in this city
would become only memory like that
of the old horse-drawn stage anG
! horse car
} With the construction Of the pro
posed new subway lines, and the
. operation of a complete city-wide anc
, city-owned bus system, the transpo orta
tion problem in New York City will bt
!, solved for generations to come.
Sees Higher Fares
|. While the city administration plans
to spend S600,000,000 for new rapid
transit lines, Governor Miller's Stat,
transit Commission, presided over b,
Chairman McAneny, is determined e
compel the city to spend the bulk 0.
, this money, not for new rapid transi
J lines, but to buy old, worn out and out
ot-date surface and elevated systems
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