Annual report of the Boston Transit Commission, for the year ending .. . eONTRAeX PLAN |^^|}SEeTION 1, SUBWAY Sheet 13 FiEST Annual Report. 57 APPENDIX A. STATEMENT OF THE SUBWAY COMMISSION TO THELEGISLATURE OE 1894. Subway Act of 1893 subway act of 1893, chapter 478, provides for the con-struction of a subway in Tremont street, from a point at or nearPleasant street, to ScoUay square (at or near which it is to connectwith the surface tracks), a distance of about four thousand feet,at an expense not exceeding two million dollars. The ScoUay-square end would come to the surface i
Annual report of the Boston Transit Commission, for the year ending .. . eONTRAeX PLAN |^^|}SEeTION 1, SUBWAY Sheet 13 FiEST Annual Report. 57 APPENDIX A. STATEMENT OF THE SUBWAY COMMISSION TO THELEGISLATURE OE 1894. Subway Act of 1893 subway act of 1893, chapter 478, provides for the con-struction of a subway in Tremont street, from a point at or nearPleasant street, to ScoUay square (at or near which it is to connectwith the surface tracks), a distance of about four thousand feet,at an expense not exceeding two million dollars. The ScoUay-square end would come to the surface in a locality where itwould greatly aggravate the existing congestion instead of reliev-ing it; while the intricate network of surface rails in the alreadyovercrowded, narrow, and crooked streets between Scollay squareand the Northern station would remain in its present bad condi-tion. Furthermore, no provision is made in this act for the carscoming into Tremont street, via Boylston, from Columbus andHuntington avenues, the Eeservoir, Brighton, Longwood, Cam-bridge, an
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