The sun., 1910-03-14
NEW SUBWAY SERVICE TODAY
RUsM HOUR EMPRESS SCHEDULE
WILL M EXTENDED.


- wv aNWNhATae tnr FNnmnc tsEhP,e
Admits aade Dear Cars WIN ahsrteu
statloa st0ps-Fears for the Future.
The IntsrbOrouGh puts into operation
this morning the compromise schedule
to which the PIblio Service Commis-
sion gave ita provisional sanction a week
ago. The rush hour headway % q minute
and forty eight seconds will he extended
10 cover Q period oI three hours in the
morning and two hours and q half at
night. Prank Hedlsy. vice-president OF
tho InterborouGh and general manager
% the subway. says that the interval be-
tween trains can't he made any less than
Il ID az present until the station stops
are cut down TO about half what they are
now. He says it's a wonder that trains
can be run Q minute and forty-etght
seconds apart anyhow.
The original order of the Public Service
Commission obliged the subway to run
trains on a two minute headway during
the non-rlsh hours and with the least
possible interval during the r'lsh hours.
The order prescribed schedules for
twenty hours out Of the twenty-four.
Mr.. Hedlcy said yesterday that in some
respects the schedule put out by the COM
mission was impossible.
But we've got together with the Pub
lie Service Commission said he. -and We
all agree that this is the best that can be
done at present. I've had sessions with
the Commissioners every day for the last
two weeks. We got a lot OF diagrams
showing the maximum speed. the delay
In stations and the largest carrying
capacity and from them We arranged the
schedules
The crux Of the present. dificulty. Mr.
Hedley said. was In tho station stops.
In order TO stick to the minute and forty
eight seconds headway q train can't
stop more than forty-five seconds at a
station.
But they do stop longer than that
said Mr HedIey and We can't avoid II.
It's there that the public can help us.
II the people would not crowd into the
] Sirs, s-nin that comes along and load Il
indeceuily they would find that the ser
vice would he a whole lot improved.
But as Il ia the passen gers can't get in
or out and the guards can't close the
doors. That means that q train has To
stay longer IN the utation. and % course
that breaks up the schedule The watts
nt Grand Central run up to a minute and
10 assFssv, sometimes a minute and q
, half
Somebody asked Mr. H"iley IL side
door trains won't cut down the waite
| at stations Yea said he They will
We arr getting new sts-.l cars fitted With
! SIDE doors az the rate of tWo or thr.e a
/ day There are five motor cars to an
eight car train. - You We are able
now to PIT a nsw side door train on every
two day-" Mr. Hsdlsy explained that
ne trailers for these trains arvs IN rVadi-
ness they are rhc cars now running IN
th" subway labelled This side door not
working
w" hop. some time said he, to get
the hesdvny down 20 minute aud half
think i'ii come hut II won't come until
tie station stops ar- reduced 90 thirty
OF th rfy-:Iv" seconds
Th.. hours affected by the change in
srhelul.-s ars chiefly tho-s immediately
l.foTe and IInm"iiat'.ly after the T1I-h
hour periods a. they have been consti-
tutS,i up 20 now Between and 10 IN
the morning the interval will be the min
imum. 1 minute and g. seconds The
same Roadway will obtain between S:H
and C.lo in the S!ening. The new sched-
ule lengthcns the period Of maximum
serv.cs about two hours and forty
minutes.
For half an hour after 10 O'Clock in tbs
morning there will be headway of two
minutes. From IO0O TO 2.Ss clock the
interval will increase by half a minute.
with a reduction again 90 two minutes
between 2.Ss and 20 o'clock After the
nj ght rush hour expresses will run thrse
minutes apart up 20 midnight Mr
Heiley says that this 10 . good deal bet
ter Ochsdule than that which ths Public
Service Commission prescribed. but thu
Public Service Commission has declared
that it will fall bach upon its old order II
tho nev schedule doesn't relieve thin&s.
Local service will DO apicksned too.
though that hasn't besu a. hard q prob
lem - the exprses service. Ths total
number Of trains called for under tho new
schedule 10 i.o0t an increase of I3A over
thoss nov on the tina sheet. eupe.
| Merritt says that this morning thsrs will
b. les sids door cars In operation IN aide
door trains. There are about ans steal
motor cars attn 70 come
The work OF lsngthening tho plat
forms in both local and express stations
! Mr. HSdlsy declared 70 be q thanElsss
soVt OF job from an enginSsrinG stand
point. and dangerous WORK too. Some
Of ths extensions had 70 DO blasted Ou.
OF the rock. and that sort Of work With
trains going by all the time has 20 BE- dons
carefully. He says that the local sta
iions viii be ready 70 receivs six carItTains
in about year. and the ten car expresses
can DO running In about the aame time.
Somebody asked MIR. Hsdiey about ns~
construction. Ought 20 have been be-
gun years ago. Don't ASK mo whose
fault it was that it wasn't. Conditions
win be bad enough nsxt winter. and God
knows what they'll be in six ysarsi'
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