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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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5 miles of surface lines. Development of the General Plan The general plan which the commissioners recommendhas in view a development along the following broadlines, which as a primary basis will require the con-struction of four north and south rapid transit linesparallel with the greater dimension of the city. Twoof these lines will pass through the present loop dis-trict and the other two will be located further west onHalsted Street and Ashland Avenue. The east and westrapid transit lines extending from the outer limits ofthe city to and through the greatly broadened centralbusiness district will intersect the above four lines,with transfer arrangements at points of intersection.This rapid transit system is to be extended, as maybe necessitated by the citys growth from time to time,so as to serve the new and growing subcenters andresidential districts. Elevated platforms are to belengthened and, at convenient points throughout the 1198 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (Vol. XLVIII, No. 24
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December 9, 19161 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1199 city, transfer is to be provided from the surface linesto the rapid transit lines to give as complete an inter-change of traffic as is consistent with the diversion ofthe long-haul traffic to the rapid transit lines and theshort-haul traffic to the surface lines. North and South Rapid Transit Lines Considering the fully developed plan and describingthe rapid transit lines in order of completion they are,for north and south travel, as follows: 1. A line is to be developed by four-tracking com-pletely the Northwestern and South Side Elevated linesfrom Sixty-third Street on the south to Wilson Avenueon the north. The central portion of this four-trackthrough line is to consist of a two-track subway extend-ing from Eighteenth Street on the South Side Elevatednorth under State Street to Chicago Avenue, thencewest to a junction with the Northwestern Elevated.The other two tracks of the central section of thisthrough four-track line is to be se

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