The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-12
ARRANGEMENT OF
CAR TRACKS PROPOSED

Map Showing Tentative Changes Is
Distributed by Virginia Rail-
way and Power Company.
CUTS OUT PARALLEL TRACKS
All Rails Removed From Broad
Street East of Eleventh, Cutting
Out Dangerous Hiils-Cars to Run
on Marshall Street.
Extensive rearrang ements of the
present street railway trackage are
Indicated In blue prints prepared yes
terday by the Virginia Railway and
. Power Company to show the changes
i that will be put into effect IL the Coun-
ell passes without amendment the sug-
gested new street railway ordinance.
The map, which will be distributed
to-day to the members of the City
! Council and the municipal authorities.
shows the street railway system as IL
exists to-day, and indicates in dotted
lines the tracks which IT IN proposed
to eliminate. 1t shows also the new
tracfage arrangement contemplated by
the ordinance now pending in the
street COMMITTEES
Perhaps the most obvious change
proposed Is the elimination of tho
double track line on Broad Strict from
Eleventh Street easLwnrdly. The whole
east-central section Of the city which
was bisectcd by this line, Is left TO
Marshall street line. which. beginning
at Eleventh Street, Will follow with
out change the present Richmond and
IIenrico route over the Marshal street
Vinduct. along Marshall street to Full
ton.
PARALLEL LINE IS
ONE BLOCK DISTANT
Tho track which 1t Is proposed to
remove and the new line are only one
block apart. The claim Is made by
the company that the Encouragement
will cause no Inconvenience, requiring
residents on the present East Broad
street line to wnlk only one block
north to the proposed new Broad and
Marshall Street cars.
The change eliminates the numerous
grade crossings and the steep grades
which handicapped the East Broad
Street line between Eleventh and
rwenty-f,fth Streets. It IS pointed out
that most OF the tracks which II is
proposed. to remove traverse either the
broken territory In the Shockoe Valley
bottom. or the district on the hill,
which viii he equally well served b..
the new line on Marshall street.
significant change on Church Hill
is the elimination of the Clay Street
loop along Twcnty-ninth, J., Twenty
18th and Jefferson strects
The new route takcs the Clay. Street
;ars northward from Marshall on
fwcnty-fifth Street to NJ Street. and
ilong NJ Street eastwardiy to Thirty
sixth Street The double track line on
Thirty first Street, between NJ and {,
streets. used b. tho Broad and Tween
y-afth Street line. is eliminated
1SO CHANGE MADE IN ~
FULTON Or ON LAKEWOOD LINE.
No change is made ia the trackagc
arrangements in Fulton and the Oak
wood Avenue line lis left intact. The
ingle track on Seventeenth Street be-
ween Clay and Grace Streets, IS re-
moved. ana the Seventeenth Street
rack Joined via Clay street 70 the
louble track IN Eighteenth Street.
The lines remain undisturbcd south
4 the river and In tho far West End.
he two Hollywood loops travelled
ow by the lakewood and Broad and
lakewood and Main and Laurel Street
ars. nre consolidated into a new sin
lie loop along Laurel Pine, Chine,
'herry and Gary Streets.
Tho double-track line on First
trcet south OF Broad is eliminated, rs
also the doublc-tracS line on Cary
trect from First to Pine Streets The
)nc piece OF track left on Cary street
two-block stretch between Pine
nd Cherry Streets. which forms one
ide OF the quadrangle making up the
ew Hollywood loop. Access TO the
= hollywood section from Main Street
'ill be by transfer at Laurel and
rom Broad street via the Laurel
treet track. which IL left intact.
OSsOLIDATE; LINES
~ NORTH OF BROAD STREET
North of Broad Street the most strik-
Ig changes are the elimination OF the
irst Street track to Duval Street. and
ie elimination OF the Seventh Street
ack from Clay to Baker Highland
ark cars. under the proposed rear
.ngement. will proceed along Seventh
la al H.. Ftt,
orthwardly along Fifth across the
aduct.
Ginter Park cars would, under the
,w arrangement, start from Broad
I'd Fifth Streets. using the present
nth street double track o: the Rich
ond and IIonrico route TO Duval,
estwardIy along Duval TO First Street
Id. then northwnrdly on First along
o present route.
The union of the Richmond aud Hen
co and Virginia Hallway and Power
ompapy Systems, In this section of
o city, would result in the clmina-
On of tho two single-track lines on
,ker and Duyal Streets and Brook
venue, west OF First Street, and the
moval OF the short stretch on Baker
rect between Seventh and Fifth
reefs, The Highland Park and Gin
r Park cars would use the Fifth
rect tracks In common between Clay
ID Baker Streets.
The changes just outlined arc pro-
'sed by the Virginia Railway and
'wer Company In connection with it's
plication for q new blanket franchise
Ssupplant the several individual
ants undcr which Its present street
ilway system In tho city is operated
iey5 are embodied in the suggested
W franchise ordinance, which do
ribes certain tracks which, in their
tally. arc to form the new system.
l tracks not expressly described In
o ordinance are to be eliminated
WILL HOLD EXAMINATION