. El problema de la terminal ferroviaria de Chicago; una serie de direcciones ante el club de la ciudad, del 3 al 10 de junio de 1913, tratando con la propuesta de reorganización de las terminales ferroviarias de Chicago, incluyendo todas las propuestas de terminal ahora ante el Comité del ayuntamiento de las terminales ferroviarias .. . la estación de pasajeros debe establecirlos en otro lugar. Esto se propone hacer, en este año, 1913, por la ejecución de una estructura elevada entre la calle Jefferson y Desplainesstreet en el corazón del lado oeste hasta la calle Van Buren Graham no lo hizo ayer, pero presentaré todos ellos

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. The railway terminal problem of Chicago; a series of addresses before the City club, June third to tenth, 1913, dealing with the proposed re-organization of the railway terminals of Chicago, including all terminal proposals now before the City council committee on railway terminals .. . ew passenger station it must establishthem elsewhere. This it proposes to do, in this year, 1913, by run-ning an elevated structure between Jefferson street and Desplainesstreet down into the heart of the west side as far as Van Buren street.Mr. Graham did not do so yesterday, but I shall present all of theessentials of that plan today in their negative characteristics. The elevated freight structure which they propose to erect inthe heart of the west side crosses 16th Street on a two-track right-of-way thirty-nine feet above street level, almost up to the top storyof an ordinary five-story building. It crosses 12th Street at anelevation of about twenty-four feet above street level. The arch-itects employed by the railroad have shown us a very beautiful archon which they propose to carry tracks across 12th Street—a sortof pocket edition of the Arc de Triomphe. No beautiful archeshave been proposed for other street crossings. 14 PROPOSAL OF THE CHICAGO PLAN COMMISSION ~j£f nsniteioj. oo H H 1 *^ •■s> I I 12; § Q12; oo 12;<l;2; Q o ^ I o ■§ i_. O g THE RAILWAY TERMINAL PROBLEM OF CHICAGO Polk and Harrison streets will be crossed by the proposed freightBlocking Off structure at an elevation of about twenty-two feet above streetthe West Side j^^^j ^^^^ between Jefferson and Desplaines streets, will be almostentirely covered with railway tracks. Harrison street at this pointwill be crossed by a freight yard, squarely in the path of the onlypossible great axis into the civic center proposed in the ChicagoPlan. Between Harrison and Van Buren streets the railroads intend toplace a great freight-house. Between Polk and Harrison there willbe a twelve-track train-yard on a so

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1910
• booksubjectrailroa
• bookyear1913