. The railway terminal problem of Chicago; a series of addresses before the City club, June third to tenth, 1913, dealing with the proposed re-organization of the railway terminals of Chicago, including all terminal proposals now before the City council committee on railway terminals .. . ough passenger service, as already outlined, but a part of the sub- Local andurban service as well. It is planned also that suburban service Servke*shall be connected with this station. Our plan provides capacityfor six times the suburban service that is handled in all Chicagotoday. Moreover, we propose to ha
. The railway terminal problem of Chicago; a series of addresses before the City club, June third to tenth, 1913, dealing with the proposed re-organization of the railway terminals of Chicago, including all terminal proposals now before the City council committee on railway terminals .. . ough passenger service, as already outlined, but a part of the sub- Local andurban service as well. It is planned also that suburban service Servke*shall be connected with this station. Our plan provides capacityfor six times the suburban service that is handled in all Chicagotoday. Moreover, we propose to have subsidiary suburban stationson the railway trunk lines in the north, northwest, west, south andsouthwest sides of the city. These subsidiary stations will relievethe service downtown and will provide for the local collection anddistribution of passengers. They will be enlarged from time totime as the service may demand. Our link will be constructed to-day to take care of the citysneeds for the next twenty years, but we have provided also foradditional capacity as required from time to time beyond that capacity can be added without interrupting traffic, or tearingdown any part of the terminal first constructed. Enough future 35 THE RAILWAY TERMINAL PROBLEM OF CHICAGO. o O t-H CD O IOQ W P Q 1-1 <:12; I—I o H w 3 COCO C ■04^ I*g S &2 ■« 111 ill ^::§ .g §aIs s u to jj +3 ^ >■§O C3 13 ^ fH ^- o I ^ III■ ■ o to p? CO O uo; 2 a . ( 3u-a oa MS a •■?? s .a a I :^ — o CO Milltil ^ PROPOSAL OF JARVIS HUNT capacity, we believe, has been provided to take care of the trafficin this area for all time. Local and suburban service, however, we propose to handlemainly on a circular route running below the street surface. Begin-ning at 16th Street near Canal street in a subway, open to the air,this line runs north parallel to Canal street from 16th Street to Kinzieand the north branch of the river; then it crosses the river in a tunneland goes
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