. The street railway review . AUSTIN CORBIN S DKEP ICNNEL SCHEME, NEW YOBK TO BROOKLYN. a great boon to the communit\. If a spare track is addedto the Grand Central station it will make a valuable andeffectual connection between the various trunk lines forthe transportation of passengers and their baggage toany part of the country. The rapid elevator connectionbetween the surface and under-ground depots would enable pass-engers from the Hudson villagesto get down town much morequickly than by the present shuttletrain on Forty-second street andthe Third avenue elevated. Aresident in Tarrvtown w
. The street railway review . AUSTIN CORBIN S DKEP ICNNEL SCHEME, NEW YOBK TO BROOKLYN. a great boon to the communit\. If a spare track is addedto the Grand Central station it will make a valuable andeffectual connection between the various trunk lines forthe transportation of passengers and their baggage toany part of the country. The rapid elevator connectionbetween the surface and under-ground depots would enable pass-engers from the Hudson villagesto get down town much morequickly than by the present shuttletrain on Forty-second street andthe Third avenue elevated. Aresident in Tarrvtown would then / ^WM,.. CROSS SECTION OF TUNNEL. get to Wall street in less than an hour, and the effectwould be to build up all the Hudson districts. The tim-nel across the East ri\er would be altogether in rock,that across the North river would be partlv in silt. Alarge sum of money is said to ha\e been spent in trial involving the expenditure of vast sums of mone\-, but thevare not within the scope of the Rapid Transit is to the point, however, to allude to them as havingin all probability a striking effect upon the internal Brooklyn Bridge has practically made its own travel,and is now unable to carr\- thecrowds who flock to it. JerseyCity and Newark are to-day morecut off from New York thanBrooklyn was before the bridgewas built. Good facilities willmake them like one city, andthere will be an enormous rushof population into New York City either for business oramusement. • The present congestion of traffic on the elevated roadsis all between South Ferr\- and 125th street. The
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