New-York tribune., 1922-03-26
Plan Subways
To L, |. City and
Staten Island
McAneny Says Work VIII
BE Begun at Once on
Route 10 Borough Hall
and 4th Ave. Extension
n a M e $ improvements
insists Five Cent Fare
Must Remain, aud Ex-
plains Proposed Changes

George McAncny, chairman Of the
Transit Commission, told the Brooklyn
Chamber Of Commerce yesterday that
the commission is planning to build a
subway from Long Island City to
Borough Hall anddo extend the Fourth
Avenue subway to Staten Island.
II thiut it only fair to let you in on
secret said Mr.. McAncny. "The
commission proposes at an early day
to construct subway from the Brook
lyn Borough Hall to Long Island City,
and also VIC propose to build an cX-
tension Of tho Fourth Avenue subway
TO Staten Island. These plans and this
development project we propose shall
be started in the immediate future.
We also want to sec to it that there is
no more profteering by the railroads. -
"There arc to-day 1000 franchises
Mr.. McAncny said. "Thcse arc held
by 216 companies.' We propose to unity
and virtually consolidate these lines, SO
that TO all intcnts and purposes there
will be one system. In reality there
will be three systems, The first viii
be the lntcrborough Rapid Transit
Company, the second will be the =. r
T. with its subways and surface lines
and the third will be the various sur
face lines of Manhattan and The Bronx
Water Must Come Out
conc of the greatest problems W.
have to face is that of getting a proper
valuation of the holdings Of these com
panies. The water must be taken out
SO that We shall have a fresh start"
After briefly explaining the method
Of control under the commission 8 com
prehousivc plan, Mr.. McAneny turned
to the fivc-ccnt fare and said:
I'VE have promised that there shall
be no change from the fve-cent fare
during the first year. In the second
year if there is balance to be made
up after all of the economies and the
savings in many other ways are put
into effect, the money needed naturally
will have to be given. We do not
however, expect there will be any
change in the fare.
"The commissions plan of rcorgani
zation will, of course, affect every part
of the city, and every railway, subway
elevated or surface line that is willing
to enter it. 1t is proposed that if the
railways be regrouped in what viii
practically be one unified system OF
operation, their properties be passed
to the city SO far as the vesting o1
title is concerned and that in exchange
for the surrender of thcir present
properties, franchises or other hold
irgs and the outstanding securities
representing them, that they be giver
securities based upon their actua
value IS operating units. which value
the commission is to fix
"One of the prime advantages of uni
tication under one control would be tha
the lines themselves may be rear
ranged, and that the new lines may b,
SO distributed that there shau be bet
ter and less wasteful service in tn,
future. The railroads of the past, witt
their hundreds of separate franchises
frequently competitive in character
laid out more or less upon a chanc,
basis and without particular refcronc,
self, Will bear rearrangement.'
Mr.. McAneny then went into a dis
cussion of the traffic situation in Brook
| lyn and the proposed rcarrangement il
that borough, and said that no surfac
line would be discontinued until othe
facilities had been put in its place
subways for the long hauls and bus line
possibly for many of the present shor
hauls. When the time comes to begin
work on the plan there will be a.
abundance of public hearings, not onl,
upon the general plan, but upon ever
detail.
ain tho projecting of new lines tn
commission has in view at the presen
time subway building only" said tn
commissioner, and he explained tina
the building of an elevated structur
as part of the Fourteenth Stree
Eastern District line over a right o
way of the Long Island Railroad in tn
Bushwick section was planned whe
the dual contracts were signed in 191;
and that the commission had no optic
but to build the elevated section a
originally planned.