Show YORK 11 NE NEW FAVORS SUBWAY LINES V Chicago Prefers Surface Cars London Divided Report Shows NEW YORK YOnI Dec 3 3 More 3 More than half of New York City City'S s six million minion travel on S subways bw and elevated lines but Chicago still sticks largely to surface cars while London passengers I divide their patronage almost equally between busses and the rapid transit system Figures revealing these statistics of ofIn I I travel in thre of the worlds world's s largest cities vv were ere presented by experts at ata ata a a. gathering here of or transportation authorities authorities au who are meeting monthly to discuss New Yorks York's s great transportation tion problems 11 live It l In latsh was the shown metropolitan oJ that Ma 6 district f persons within within with with- i in a t twenty mile mlle mile radius of rif Fifth th avenue avenue avenue ave ave- nue at Thirty fourth street About 2 of them liyo on Manhattan Manhattan Man Ian hattan island and another 2000 flock into lower Manhattan ever every week da day daj four Fifty four per cent of ot these ride on subways and elevated lines 35 per cent patronage surface cars ferries haul 5 6 per cent commutation commutation commutation tation steam trains 4 pet per cent an and 2 per cent travel in busses In Chicago surface cars carr carry 73 71 per cent of the city's passenger traffIc traffic traffie fIc fie rapid transit lines get 21 per cent and the other 6 per cent travel in suburban suburban suburban sub sub- urban steam trains In London the ratios are 33 per cent in busses busse 27 per cent in surface cars and 40 per percent percent percent cent in rapid transit trains Manhattan l islands island's s population av averages averages aver aver- er- er ages persons per pel acre and Brooklyn Brook- Brook l lyn hn n has 46 while the average for the square miles mUes of habitable territory territory terri- terri tory embraced in the tho metropolitan district district dis- dis is 21 persons per acre This is compared with 16 per acre in London London Lon Lon- don 20 in corporate Chicago 20 Incorporate in incorporate incorporate corporate Chicago 20 for Detroit and 23 for tor Cleveland It was predicted by bv one of the en engineers n en- that the five boroughs of New ew York will grow to in population lation by 1945 1941 and that by i that time the city would need forty forty eight eight subway subway subway sub sub- way and elevated tracks running north and south on Manhattan island |