Evening star., 1928-12-29
SERIES OF TRAFFIC
TUNNELS PROPOSED
New York and New Jersey
Officials Say Tubes Would
Pay Profits.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 29-Gen.
George r. Dyer, chairman Of the New
York State Bridge and Tunnel Com
mission, and Theodore Boettger, chair
man of the New Jersey Interstate
Bridge and Tunnel Commission, made
yesterday to executive and legislative
authorities Of New York and New Jer-
sey joint recommendation for the
adoption Of a long-term program Of
vehicular tunnel construction, each
new tunnel to be paid for out Of the
profits of its predecessor.
They addressed their joint COM
munication to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Governor Of New York; Morgan
F. Larson, Governor-elect of New Jer-
sey; Senator John Knight and Speaker
Joseph A. M5f1innies of the New York
Legislature. And Senator Thomas A.
Mathis ana Speaker George G. Gabriel
son of the New Jersey Legislature.
Present Tunnel Pays.
Their incentive in the development
of the program which they recommend
is the Unexpectedly large revenue ac-
cruing from the Holland Vehicular
Tunnel at Canal street. Looking for
ward, they perceive that within GER
pacity. Their program provides for the
opening of another Hudson River
vehicular tunnel between Thirty-fourth
and Forty-second streets in Manhattan
at approximately that date.
They point out that, with traffic In
creasing at a rate which has proved
fairly regular over a period Of IL years,
by the time the second tunnel is COM
pleted the revenues of the Holland
Tunnel will be sufficient to defray New
York's share of the costs.
These constantly increasing revenues
the bridge and tunnel commissioners
would have used as revolving fund to
construct new vehicular tunnels, each
to be started at date which will insure
its completion by the time existing tun-
| nels are carrying their capacity loads
and each eventually to revert to the
public, with possibly nominal tolls suf.
| ffcient to cover the cost of maintenance
Long Island Tube Urged.
Commissioners Dyer and Boettgel
| point out that the Holland Tunne
makes direct connection through Canal
street with the Manhattan Bridge over
the East River and advise that the sites
of future tunnels be selected with a
view to connecting them as directly
with other thoroughfares TO Long
Island.
The site south of Forty-second street
suggested as that for the next tunnel
they pont out, would be a convenient
one in respect to the East River tunnel
at Thirty-eighth street. Each new tun-
! mel, it is said, should be commenced al
least five years before the time when i
| Is estimated that it would be a neces-
| sity. The Holland Tunnel will be use(
to capacity. they say, by 1884. so m
time should be lost in starting the mex
tunnel.
Other sites suggested for future tun
nels are in the vicinity of Fourteentl
street, Fifty-ninth street (providin
the project for a bridge at this poin
does not go through) and 125th stree
The 125th street site, 1t is pointed ou
would be convenient in respect to II
proposed tri-borough bridge, and I
Fifty-nine street site In respect to
| Greensboro Bridge. These four
tunnels, the commissioners think, VIC
suffice for the handling of traffic for
years.
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