. Die Straßenbahn Zeitschrift . Island Rail-Road Tracks. Eine weitere U-Bahn-Verbindung mit derU-Bahn wird von der Long Island Railroad von Long Island City unter dem East River vorgeschlagen, und von dort unter Thirty-Third Street (mit einer Anschlussstation unter derU-Bahn an der Fourth Avenue) zur Seventh Avenue und von dort unter der Seventh Avenue zum Broadway, mit einer Bahnverbindung dorthin mit der U-Bahn. Eine zweite East River Brücke wird jetzt von der De-lancey Street, Manhattan, zur South Fifth Street, Brooklyn gebaut, um den heutigen Grand Street-Broadway Fährverkehr unterzubringen. Eine dritte Brücke in der Pike Street, man

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. The Street railway journal . Island Rail-road tracks. Another underground connection with theSubway is proposed by the Long Island Railroad fromLong Island City under the East River, and thence underThirty-Third Street (with a connecting station under theSubway at Fourth Avenue) to Seventh Avenue, andthence under Seventh Avenue to Broadway, with a trackconnection there with the Subway. A second East River bridge is now being built from De-lancey Street, Manhattan, to South Fifth Street, Brooklyn, to accommodate the present Grand Street-Broadway ferrytraffic. A third bridge at Pike Street, Manhattan, to Wash-ing Street, Brooklyn, and a fourth at Fifty-Ninth Street, Manhattan, to Ravenswood, Queens, with a pier on Black-wells Island, are under contract. These bridges and tun-nels to Brooklyn and Queens will largely relieve the ex-cessive congestion on the present bridge. In Manhattan Borough all horse lines of the Metro-politan Street Railway are gradually being equipped with October 5, 1901.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.. 382 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. 14. the electric conduit system. The Seventh AvenueHne and the Eighth Street Inie are now under suchreconstruction. Compressed air motors have been triedunsuccessfuhy on some of the crosstown hues, and experi-ments are now being carried on with storage battery cars.The short Montague Street Line m Brooklyn is the onlyremaining cable line in the city. The Manhattan Railwaylines will abandon their steam locomotives for the third-rail electric system, beginning with the Second Avenueline, which is expected to make the change early in 1902, and the entire reconstruction is expected to be completedby the end of next year. On the other side of the city, it has been announced that can well keep pace with the traffic offered. The summerexcursion or pleasure travel is developed to large propor-tions, and with sufficient advertising presents almost un-limited possibilities to attract patrons from an adjacentclientele of o

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