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Show DOUBLE-DECKED fl i SUBWAY. URGED I N. Y. Plans Provision for Traf- fie Growth in Next i l ' 25 Years (The Associated Press.) HCS NEW YORK. Oct. S This city will 1H have a new double-decked subway HB9 running most of the length of Man- BHsS hattan Island If the plans proposed by Effft I John H. Delao Construe- f tlon Commissioner, to provide for the 98? .increase In traffic in the next fl ?5 He put IntO effect. It win be necei rj to resoi I to i this double-deck Bubwaj construction, 5 in the opinion ol th Commissioner, 1 ',!. because the congested section of Man- BsTOV hattan borough has only 11 north and DW south arteries to serve more th in 100 HA cross streets. 1 4 His plans call for an eight-track. Bfl double-deck line on the west side of the city from the Battery to l&5th flHsw street lunnirfg under Eighth and Am- HrT sterdam avnuea 0y four tr.k. E" would be constructed at first iut these flMBe. would be so located that another four- flR track unit could be built under or on fls&J top of It. HBi Mr. Delaney also proposes the build- Ear ing of another north and south sub- way of four to six tracks under Fifth flUll and Madison avenues, on the east side, IK., and extending Horn the Battery to the Hjj ' Harlem river Both these arteries V 1 would have connections extending to r " the boroughs of the Bronx. Brooklyn Mr' or Richmond. B- The Commissioner advocatea the construction of 42 new slryrle-track nver tunnels As the present svstem Wwn has 34 such tunnels, this would 'make iMf i a total of 76 tunnels He says then passenger traffic on WnBi the surface of the main arteries, north , flp ' and south or crosstown. wUl soon HLw have to be discontinued because of BTI the Kre.it increase of traffic of e- gfl hides ami pedestrians; with the n Ml suit that all passenger traffic on the- K?t streets would be forced into subways MM or on eiovs flu 1 |