CROSSING THE SYDNEY HARBOUR.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4323, 28 September 1921, Page 2

CROSSING THE SYDNEY HARBOUR.

♦ TUBE. PROPOSED. ONLY £750,000 REQUIRED. Transit across Sydney Harbour has within the last few days assumed rather a new aspect. At the close pf the meeting of the Northern Suburbs Campaign Committee, held in the North Sydney Town Hall last week, the Mayor (Aid.. Whatmore) made the following importai.t statement:

“I got into ’’.ouch to-day with Mr Booth, representing Mr E. W. Chalmers Kearney, inventor of the Ke.orney Highspeed Railway, England. If the bridge across the harbour were started to-morrow, it would, as ,we all know, be ten years before it would be open for traffic. Mr Kearney is prepared to construct a tube under the harbour on the very latest principles from Milson’s Point to Circular Quay, to provide an eplctric railway in connection therewith, and to complete the same within 12 months flrom the date of commencement, at a cost of £750,000. If necessary, he will pro-, vide the whole of the capital required for the undertaking and run the railway when completed, the charge for passengers to be one penny each way. The time of travel to be 70 seconds each way, and the number of passengers capable of being carried being 20,000 each way. This can be increased, if! necessary. This arrangement will give a .three minutes* service between Milson’s Point and the Quay. Mr Kearney is prepared to sell to the Government on completion, if desired, or he is prepared to construct for the Government. “The committee now has this scheme under consideration, and Mr Booth will be invited to attend meetings of the respective councils interested for the purpose of propounding the scheme during the next fortnight. The committee will meet again for the purpose of going further into the scheme. The rate at which the railway will travel is estimated at 67 miles per hour. The proposed new line will be single rail top and bottom. In the meantime the question of the proposed new ferry service will be receiving further consideration.”