The New York Times

Friday, August 2nd, 1918

Open New Subway Lines To Traffic; Called A Triumph

Great H System Put in Operation.

Marks an Era in Railroad Construction.

NO HITCH IN THE PLANS.

But Public Groups Blindly to Find the Way in Maze of New Stations.

THOUSANDS GO ASTRAY.

Leaders in City's Life Hail Accomplishment of Great Task at Meeting at the Astor.

The new H system, so-called utilizes the old subway as its base. On the east side the old subway lines form a connection with the Lexington Avenue subway at the Grand Central diagonal station. The tracks across Forty-Second Street to the Times Square Station are the horizontal bar of the H and are used for shuttle service. At the Times Square Station the new Seventh Avenue subway is joined to the tracks of the old subway, extending up Broadway and forming the west side line of the new system.