Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-02-08
GOOD PROGRESS
ON CITY PLAN
IS OUTLINED
Peter c. Olsen Tells What Has
Been Done at Lions Club
Luncheon
FAYETTE STREET MATTER
Stressed by Board Member
Tells of Crossings and New
State Bridge

The accomplishments of TIE City
Plan Commission and recommends
tons made by this body to the Board
OF Aldermen were outlined at the
meeting of the Lions Club today by
Peter c. Olsen, chairman of the COM
mittee. Mr.. Olsen was introduced
to the club by the chairman of the
day, August Staudt, and went into
considerable detail concerning the
working of the city plan body and
displayed maps and drawings show
ing the objects of the committee in
| Investigations which h We been car
ried on for 1t by the Technical Ad-
visory Corporation of New York City.
Mr.. Olsen declared that unless the
| city took notice of the recommended
tions of the committee in years to
come the city would regret it.
Mr.. Olsen said in part:
Perth Amboy today is perhaps
facing the most serious years of its
municipal authority. 1 refer now to
the tremendous changes occaSioned
by the depression of the tracks of
the Central Railroad, the erection of
the new bridge and the fastly in
creasing automobile through traffic.
These improvements have created
many problems two of which are
''The immediate necessity of
erecting a large trunk sewer to
parallel the tracks and drain a por-
ton of the western part of the
city. This sewer must be made per-
manent in every sense of the word.
1t would seem advantageous at this
time to build a trunk sewer. from
the foot of Lewis street draining all
the sewer ends now projecting Into
the bay along the south shore OF
the city this sewer also to join the
sewer paralleling the tracks and TO
be emptied into the deep water OF
the river as far out as the author
| tiles in charge will permit us to go
There is hardly any doubt but
| that within a very few years munich
palities who have heretofore emptied
their sewerage directly into navlga-
BILE waters will be prohibited from
| continuing this practice so GROUNDS
should be laid for the erection of a
| large disposal plant on the city s
property at this time.
81 do not mean that the plant
should be built now but hrmly pc
| lieve that all the engineering SO far
as the sewers are concerned should
be completed.
"a sewer such as described would
make it possible TO start the I'M
provement of the south shore with
q park, if it is deemed advisable.
| The City Plan Commission has not
| yet fully determined IL this par
ticular piece of shore front is use
full for dock purposes. That is
very important study and has to be
taken from several angles.
"There are two kinds OF docks.
w q
alongside of the dock, discharge her
| cargo into railway car and in that
way distribute her cargo all over the
| country.
"The second type is a terminal
whereby cargo would be unioaded
and manufactured into articles of
various kinds on the premises. 1t
would be of interest to you, gentle
| men, to know that the Bush Termi-
nal buildings in South Brooklyn only
employ water transportation for ap-
proximately 10 per cent of its incom-
| ing or outgoing material.
"The other problem referred TO
was the creating of a trunk line
lthoroughfare to handle nonstop,
non paying traffic through the city
from the Staten Island ferry.
"The City Plan Commission had
no part in track depression plan,
but felt that the question OF cross
overs is a very serious one and re-
CURED immediate attention.
"'In the past thirty or thirty-five
years or from the time the city had
but a few thousand inhabitants
there have been five streets crossing
the Central tracks. We still have
the same five streets to handle a
traffic which has increased several
thousand fold.
Briefly speaking. the City Plan
Commission proposes to direct all
through traffic from staten 1slani
ferry through Water street to Fay
ette street and throw a bridge over
the railroad at Fayette street con-
tinue 1t through the Pardee Com
panys lands to Convery place. This
CONTINUED on page y
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