ROME'S NEW SUBWAY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 16

ROME'S NEW SUBWAY

LINE TO AVOID OLD RUINS.

Rome is^to have a subway. Within ten years it is expected that the first unit of a new underground railroad will have been completed and put into service, states an Italian correspondent of the "New York Times. " The plan calls for a system of twenty-seven milss in all to link the railroad stations, the business and residential sections of the Italian capital.

A special Commission appointed by' the Italian Government has just completed plans for the new transit system after a survey of the historical ruins of the ancient city, upon which modern Rome is built, to bo sure that in digging the trenches no damage will be done to these archaeological treasures. The two principal lines of the subway will cross each other at the Piazza Santi Apostoli. The first one will run in an east-aiid-wost direction from the quarter of the city containing the railway stations to the Prati and Piazza San Pietro. Another lino will run from the Via Flaminia to San Paolo, the starting point of the electric railway between Home and Ostia. At.a more distant date a Hue to cover the south of Rome will run from Piazza San Pietro to the Janieulum and Trastavere, crossing the Tiber at the Sublicius bridge and extending by way of San Paolo,. the Piazza Giovanni in Laterano and the Porta Maggiore to San Lorenzo and the cemetery.