. The street railway review . GINEER TO THE AMERICAN PERMANENT WAY COMPANY, AND AUTHOR OF PRELIMINARY SURVEY AND ESTIMATES. AS already stated in our previous article, the com-mission is empowered to settle upon a route orroutes and the best method of construction forone or more lines of railway through the whole problem naturally divides itself into externaland internal means of communication. It is only by treat-ing the matter with the comprehensiveness which isdemanded by the future development of the city, that anadequate solution can be reached. If the municipal meeting at Whiteha
. The street railway review . GINEER TO THE AMERICAN PERMANENT WAY COMPANY, AND AUTHOR OF PRELIMINARY SURVEY AND ESTIMATES. AS already stated in our previous article, the com-mission is empowered to settle upon a route orroutes and the best method of construction forone or more lines of railway through the whole problem naturally divides itself into externaland internal means of communication. It is only by treat-ing the matter with the comprehensiveness which isdemanded by the future development of the city, that anadequate solution can be reached. If the municipal meeting at Whitehall street, and a third tunnel taking asnearly as possible a bee line for the Grand Central, andha\ing an elevator and exchange gallery in the tunnel toconnect the arrival and departure platforms. The NewYork Central depot is arranged in the opposite way toordinary American depots, and the exchange gallerywould have to be arranged so that the arrival of the oneline could cross the departure platform of the other andvice ± BROADWAY AS PROPOSED BY NEW YORK authorities of lifty years ago had been able to foresee thepresent extension of the city, they would have reserved aright of way traversing the whole of the island and oneach side of it from end to end. The present difficultyarises from the enormous expense of cutting throughabout ten miles of substantial town property. If the NewYork Central had been originally carried down to SouthFerry in tunnel or viaduct, it would have provided theWestchester county with rapid transit facilities along threedifferent lines of development, besides wonderfully sim-plifying the connection of the neighboring cities of Brook-lyn and Jersey City with New York. At present thedouble change at 4 2d street with two flights of stairsrenders the journey to and from Wall street, too tediousto be popular with business men. The only way now to bring forward the tratlic fromthe Grand Central station would appear to be by a three-way link of tunnels
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