New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
Mayors Project Copies
Many Features Of the
nsit Commission
Involving 2l8 Millions
l26 Miles Of New
Lines !; Six / I'unrlels
Author Says Strikes Will
Be Unknown; Busses to
Replace Surface Coaches

/. Mayor Hylan's long-deferred plan
for rapid transit was made public at
the City Hall yesterday in the alb
sence Of the executive, who is in Sar-
atoga on vacation.
The Mayor seems to ignore the law
which places responsibility for initial,
ing new subway plans with the Transit
Commission. 1t was the failure of the
Hylan administration to lay down any
feasible plan for new subways that
prompted the Legislature to create the
Transit Commission.
The Mayors plan provides new tran
sit lines costing, with equipment,
$500, ,Oo0, 900.
Copying many Of the salient routes
and features of the Transit Commits
sion's comprehensive plan, which is to
cost s21s,o0o. 900. the Mayor proposes to
build 1875 miles of new subways, over
35 new routes, extensions and tunnels.
Six New Tunnels
The plan provides for unified city
| operation, as proposed by the Transit
Commission, and universal five-cent
fare.
1t provides for immediate transit re-
lief in all boroughs by the use of city
owned busses.
1t provides six new tunnels besides
| the one to Staten Island.
1t provides for the "recapture" of
ninety-seven miles of existing subways
| in 1926 and 1925 and the termination
| of the city's contracts with the Inter
borough and the B. r, T.
1t provides direct routes from Wash
| ington Heights, Harlem and the Bronx
| to Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island
without passing through Manhattan
1 Island. ~
The Mayor said that the city did
not intend to invest another dollar in
| the acquisition of antiquated elevated
and surface lines controlled by pri-
| yate operators. ~
In various parts of his project the
4 Mayor lapses into attacks on Chair
| man McAneny Of the Transit Comnais-
]! sion and Governor Miller, and helfinds
| in the Transit Commissions compre.
hensive transit plan for New York
only malevolent project to- rehabili-
1 tate the interests. sssssg
Cost 5000, ,oO0, 600
The formal statement setting forth
| the Mayors plan says that he will pre-
! sent it to the Board of Estimate on
| September 6, and he ventures the sug-
| gestions that it will spread peace and
| plenty throughout the city, provide
employment and "bring New York to
1 the pinnacle of social, civic and com
mercial greatness" y
| The Mayor calls for an amendment
| to the transit law, SO that the. Board
OF Estimate may have undivided re-
spcnsibility.
/ "The city intends" said the Mayor
"to spend about s600,000,000 during
I the next fifteen years to construct and
equip these new rapid transit lines
| 1t intends to begin its first construc.
4 tion immediately soon as the nee.
| essary detailed plans can be prepared
Iby the engineers it intends te
have new subway lines in operation
before the expiration Of the term Of
the present elected city officials. The
construction of these new rapid transit
4 lines will go on at the same time in all
boroughs.
No Partnerships
! HThese new rapid transit lines will
! be constructed by the city itself. The
city will have no partners in. this 81
fgantic enterprise, and it will enter
tain no partnership in the operation
of any of these lines when finished
Int will be exclusively city under,
/ taking. The city will become the sols
! operator Of all these new lines and o.
/ existing subway lines which the cit,
4 owns and which are now leased !. t.
/ private operators.
1.-THE city intends to discontinue
4 it's present partnership arrangement
! with the Interborough and the Brook
/ lyn Rapid Transit companies as soor
as it can legally do SO. 1t intends tt
4 take over the city-owned subway lines
4 operated by these private companie:
4 and operate them itself in conjunc
1 tion with the new subways.l This will
be the most extensive venture in city
operation, as well as city ownership
of local transportation lines, anywhere
on earth.
City-Owned Mileage
"At the present time the city own:
about Ill route miles of rapid transi'
lines, sincluding certain elevated ex
/ tensions which are operated by tn,
fprivate companies. When the nev
rapid transit lines are finished and i,
j operation the city will have d. total q
f237 route miles, virtually all of it ep
1erated by the city itself on the basis
of cent fare for continuoul
tride from one end of the greater cit.
tcontnued on psas fcu,J q
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