DISCUSSES MODERN TRANSIT

The Engineering Society held its second meeting of the year last night when Mr. D. L. Turner lectured on modern transit problems to more than 100 students. Mr. Turner is now consulting engineer for the New York Transit Commission.

He explained how, in New York, one two-track subway line through the business district is made to serve two two-track lines in the residential districts, by extending the subway in opposite directions from the business district. He declared that municipal operation is "unthinkable", because it is impossible to keep the management free from political influence, but that municipal ownership of all subways is highly desirable.

Transit facilities should precede and not follow the flow of population, he continued, in order that congestion may be prevented. Future developments ought to be planned for the good of the public, not of the corporation, for the transportation of people from their homes to their work is a social, and not a business problem.