A GIGANTIC RAILWAY SYSTEM
A $40,0(10.000 TASK. What will probably be the most extensive work ever undertaken to provide a city with transit facilities has just begun, when the first spadeful of earth was excavated in Lexingham Avenue, Sixtyseventh street, for New York's new underground railway system. The cost of this huge enterprise will exceed €1.00(1.000. and will include the laying of 140 miles of metals. Tt is e-:iiinali'd that the entire system will be in full working order within five years. The New York municipality will dig the funnels and private companies will probably rent them. The tunnels will have [our sets of metals, permitting expresses to run at the rate of SO miles an hour throughout the day. The ltew system will relieve the terrible congestion of traffic to \\\l\ieh the people of New York have been subjected for so many years during the morning and evening rush hours. T\he city has grown faster than new traffic lines could be constructed to handle the population, hut the new subways, with their 140 miles of lines, are expected to adequately accommodate the municipality for many years to «om«.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 91, 7 October 1911, Page 9
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189A GIGANTIC RAILWAY SYSTEM Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 91, 7 October 1911, Page 9
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