largest cities, have long been studying systems of rapid transit to discover means " of transporting their hundreds of thousands of daily workers to and from the city land the rapidly extending suburban. districts.
Tokyo's plans received a severe set-back from the grest catastrophe of, 1923, especially on the financial side, and it therefore looks as if Osaka might be able to forge ahead of the Capital in coping with this ever-pressing need.
The final details of Osaka's plan, which has received the sanction of the Government, has now been made pubbs by the Osaka oficlals "con-
According to this plan the total length of the system is 33.86 miles, of which 18.07 miles are to be subway, and 20.70 miles to be elevated. This project represents an outlay ¥.162,300,000, with average cost per mile of about ¥.4,192,686.
The work is expected to ' occupy eight years. The north-south route to be subterranean, while the east-to-west route is to be of "L" system generally. For the construction of subways, the ground is to be dug to the depth of 32 ft. 6 in, to allow of the top of the tunnel being placed just 10 feet from the surface of the ground, so that the height of the subterranean tunnel is 22 ft, 6 in. Where the tunnels cross the bottom of a river or canal, the tunnels will be sunk 47 igh tide surface, the top of which willie' placed about 18 feet below the highest tide surface of water, The vindoets for the, elevated system are of reinforced" concrete and are said to be a distinct de-Parture from the prevailing type that they are of the mono-post style, so that their cross section woul present the shape of an umbrella, The posts will stand about 24 feet from the level of the round, with the width at the top St 26 feet,
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