New York City's planned subway expansion to New Jersey, 1957 Size:14x14 it was much

it was much

000 inhabitants - not a particularly suitable candidate for a three-line subway system

manual cable propulsion (like San Francisco’s cable cars)

The Canadian federal government was willing to shell out

New York City's planned subway expansion to New Jersey, 1957 Size:14x14 it was muchWhile browsing the archives of the University of California, I found a copy of the abortive plan to extend the New York City subway to New Jersey in the late 1950s. At the time, the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad, forerunner to the modern PATH subway, was still under private ownership, and it was proposed that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey or a new bi state agency take over both the subways and the Hudson & Manhattan. Designed in New York