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$90,000,000 for subways. The added facilities were absorbed in six months, and the care were more crowded at that time than they had been before. Seven years later, having endured to the utmost, the city planned more subways—$350,000,00 of them. And thus in ten years New York City made debts of $440,000,000 to solve its transportation problem. Yet who can say that the new subways will be adequate to meet the increasing demands of an enlarged city? Of striking interest in this connection is the statement of Mr. Theodore P. Shonts, President of the Interboro Transit Company of New York, who said: "Each year the problem of handling the millions of New York traffic grows increasingly difficult. The struggle is hard, not to anticipate the city's future needs, but merely to keep up with the present. Public Service Commissioner Travis H. Whitney estimates that city traffic is increasing at the rate of more than 100,000,000 annually. We seem to be working in a circle: (1) added facilities; (2) more population; (3) more congestion."
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