ACROSS THE HARBOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18542, 1 May 1922, Page 5

ACROSS THE HARBOUR

SYDNEY’S TRAFFIC PROBLEM.

TUNNEL RAILWAY I SCHEME, * | * I Press Association— By ’itlegniph—CfepyrigSlL^i LONDON, April 29. v || (Received April 30, at 5.5 p.in.) J ■;§ Mr Chalmers Kearney, an engineer, gave a demonstration of a speed railway designed to commniricatS B# ?i tween Circular Quay and Milson’s Pointy Sydney, by a, tube under the harbour. J»!l| is a model railway installed on the jaoatft || rail system, with an overhead guiding tts. following the gradients necessary in municatmg under the harbour. Themodtl cars worked without a hitch. ' c

The inventor claims that the cars oOfddt convey 20,000 passengers hourly, <SM|. - transit occupying 65 seconds, at ah esMr mated cost of £750,000 as against I £10,000,000 for Bradfield’s bridge. Top,; ■ tube could be readily duplicated to carry twice the numbers. The principle of - J gravity is utilised for developing high speed.—A. and N.Z. Cable -