The New York herald., 1922-12-15
EIGHTH AVE. SUBWAY
PLAN SENT TO CITY
Transit Commission Per-
fects It's Scheme for New
West Side Link.
COST TO BE 500, 800, 900
Eleven Mile Line Would
Run From Chambers st.
to Old Billings Place.
LENOX TRAFFIC DIVERTED
Seventh Avenue Trains Would
Run Only on Dyckman-Van
COrtlandt Division.

The Transit Commission announced
last night that it had submitted to
the Board of Estimate its plan for the
proposed Eighth e-Amsterdam
subway from the present Interborough
station at Hudson and Chambers
streets and West Broadway to Over
look Terrace, opposite 192d street and
near the former c. *. G. Billings
estate.N
The line would be eleven miles
long and take the following route
from Chambers street: Up Hudson
street to Abingdon square, thence up
Eighth avenue to Fifty-seventh street,
west in F'ifty-seventh street to Tenth
avenue, up Tenth and Amsterdam to
155th street, across Broadway and
into Fort washington avenue at 159th
street and up Fort Washington ave-
nue. to the terminal on the highest
part of Manhattan Island.
- At various points the line would con-
meet with present and other proposed
1o3d street it would cut into the present
Lenox avenue line and all traffic from
that line would be diverted into 1t, thus
relieving the present West Side subway.
Could Begin In Nine Months.
II the Board of Estimate approves 4.
is estimated that actual construction
could be commenced within nine months.
The first work would be at at Eighth
avenue and Forty-first street for a con-
nection with the greensboro extension.
This subway is one of seven proposed
BY the Transit Commission last May
1t would have thirty-eight miles OF track
and for part of the distance be in six
separate tubes. All of it would be
linked with some part of the transit
system now in use and be built In sub
stantially the following order:
(a) The first full section would run
from Forty-first street to Fourteenth
street. This would carry four tracks in
two decks on the west side of the ave-
nue.. Eventually similar double decked
structure carrying four additional tracks
would be built on the east side. At
ton with the Greensboro extension and
at Fourteenth street the connection with
the Fourteenth street Eastern District
line to Brooklyn. These two connections
would afford through loop service to
the Greensboro and Fourteenth street
lines.
(b) The second building stage, south
in Eighth avenue and Hudson street,
would carry the line from Fourteenth
street to the terminal at Chambers
street, where passengers desiring to go
further south in Manhattan or across to
Brooklyn could transfer to the present
Broadway-Seventh. avenue line.
Four Tracks to 155th street.
(c) The third step would cover the
section north. again as a two deck. four
track subway. on the westerly side of
Eighth avenue to Fifty-seventh street,
and thence by way of Amsterdam ave-
nue. to 103d street, where the traffic Of
the Lenox avenue branch would be di-
vented to 1t.
(d) AS the fourth and final stage
the line would be continued on four
track. single level up Amsterdam ave-
nue. to 155th- street thence with three
tracks up Fsrt Washington avenue 70
Overlook Terrace. This unit would pro-
vide wholly new facilities for the dense
ly populated territory that has devel.
oped in upper Manhattan since IL
building OF the first subway. There
would be n new express service from
155th street to Fourteenth street.
The estimated cost Of the Eighth ave.
nue. line by sections would be- (a).
$4,000. 600 (b). S7.500.000 (c) s24.-
100000; Cd. s26,00o,oO0. a total OF