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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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eprice is $900,000. July 12, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 73 Parsons Solution of Brooklyn Bridge Problem The Rapid Transit Commission is considering a report made byits chief engineer, William Barclay Parsons, providing for per-manent relief from the congestion of traffic at Brooklyn Bridge,and offering additional transportation facilities between the twoboroughs. The plan calls for a tunnel from the Brooklyn Bridgethrough Nassau Street to Maiden Lane, and a tunnel from MaidenLane to Brooklyn for the exclusive use of trolley cars if they areto remain on the bridge. If they are to be removed, Mr. Parsonsrecommends the moving platform. The cost of the improvement,exclusive of the work that would be necessary to grade the-bridgeproperly, is estimated at $2,750,000. The plan prepared by C. C.Martin, then chief engineer of the bridge, would have cost $2,405,-300, but Mr. Parsons believes that a considerably larger sum wouldbe granted for abutting damages than that estimated in the Martin
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arms—one of which diverges at White Street and the other nearHoward Street—converge into Canal and thence pass along Canalto Chrystie Street, where connection would be made with BridgeNo. 3. Mr. Lindenthal disapproved of this plan on the groundthat a four-track elevated railroad on Center Street would need-lessly ruin the costly and architecturally monumental city propertyon that street. Mr. Parsons then outlines the plan of Commissioner Lindenthal,including tracks to be above those of the Manhattan tracks overPark Row and the Bowery to Delancey Street, and thence to theWilliamsburg Bridge, and another elevated structure to run fromBridge No. 3 to the Hudson River at West Street, and then to passover the Manhattan elevated lines, where passengers could betransferred to the Manhattan system. He partially approves of Mr.Martins plan, but mainly as to the route, believing that CenterStreet would serve the public better than any other street. He callsattention to the millions spent by

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