Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-14
Director Points Out That
Unless Councils Act
Promptly a Years Delay
Will Be Inevitable.

construction OF the subway and elevated
lines.
If Councils refuse to include the $500 .noD
appropriation FOR rapid transit, Director
Taylor pointed out that the transit pro-
gram worked out by his department ani
agreed to by the +. r. T. COMPANY but
which has been repeatedly blocked by
Councils, will be delayed another wear.
The city should take the initiative. he
said, and start work Immediately With
out waiting for the Union Traction Com
pany to ratify the program
Director Taylor also announced new
surface lines in many parts Of rhia-
delphia which are needed and will be In
cluded in the transit plan. They include
crosstowu line on flftE-SlNth street,
additional facilities above Frankford,
line on Chew street, extensions to the
South Philadelphia north and south
lines. additional lines north of Girard
College, n direct line TO RoNborough, a
line on Eorth Ninth street and q direct
'liur' 70 Fox Chase.
When Common Council holds a special
meeting on Thursday to pass the ordi-
nance that will submit the loan 90 Phi.a-
delphia voters at the November elections,
representative business men from all parts
of Philadelphia will request that body 20
reconsider the action OF Councils. Finance
Committee, which placed the latest block
In the road OF rapid transit development
last Thursday, when II refused Director
Taylor's request for an appropriation.
DIRECTOR TAYLOR'S STATEMENT
The people Of Philadelphia are directly
Interested in securing -ror7D+ ratification
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with free transfers which has grown out
OF the conference -etween the Phi.alel-
phia Rapid Transit Company and tho De-
psrtment OF city Transit" said Director
Taylor in his statement,
This program has bnen submitted 10
the City CoYc'!s Of Pai4as.7hta and to
the stockholders or the Union Traction
II os'-s-9any foT consideration ana anal ac-
ton.
The program provides. among other
things. fer the elimination az th' Scent
exchange tickets and tho DEVELOPMENT Of
an adequate hish-speed transportation
system In the c.ty. which will nTord the
free transfer o: passengers between high
speed lines and aleo between h.gE-speed
lines and intersoct.ng surface lines, so
that II Will be POSSIBLE for people TO travel
quickly ana comfortably from every im-
portant section of the city to every other
important section OF the city for one j.
cent fare bv the Joint use when u.ces-
'-Rry, OF both surface AM l!gE-speed lines
Pro- make the journey.
THE program fGrthrr provides q vla5
a.ancns the much needed extensions
Weane eN'st.Hz surface system. Thus NE
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IN the nortnsaStern section aaa't.onal
SURFACE laciHues are needed above
Frankford.
In Germantown the people arH very
properly demanding the construction ~
bullt up out Iso!at~a.
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