Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-14
TAYLOR INSISTS
ON $5OO,OOOFOR
TRANSIT WORK
Director Points Out That
Unless Councils Act
Promptly a Years Delay
Will Be Inevitable.

to the growth of Philadelphia. He urged
Councils to include in the proposed Sill
100000 loan an item OF $5oo,oE. so that an
immediate start can be made in recon
structing sewers in the central down
town district preliminary to the actual
construction of the subway and elevated
lines.
II Councils refuse to include tn" S5ooooo
appropriation tor rapid transit Du,ctor
Taylor pointed out that the transit pro-
gram worked out by his department and
agreed to by the p. Il. T. company hut
which has been repeatedly blocked by
Councils. will be delayed another Year.
The city should take the initiative, he
said. and start work immediately, with
out waiting for the tnion Traction COM
pany to ratify the program.
Director Taylor also announced uew
surface lines in many parts of Phi.a-
delphia which are needed and will be i'll
Guided in the transit plan. They inc,ud"
crosstown line on FiftN-SiXth street.
additional facilities above Franlttord. a
line on Chew street, extensions to III"
South Philadelphia north and south
lines, additional lines north OF Gtrard
College, n direct line to Roxborough,
line on North Ninth street and a direct
line TO Fox Chase.
When Common Council holds a special
nance that will submit the loan to PhiIa-
delphia voters at the November elections,
representative business mn from all parts
of Philadelphia will request that body TO
reconsider the action of Councils Finance
Committee, which placed the latest block
In the road of rapid transit development
last Thursday. when II refused Dlretor
Taylor's request for an appropriation,
DIRECTOR TAYLOR's STATEMENT
The people of Philadelphia are directly
interested in securing prompt ratification
of the program for transit development
with free transfers which has grown out
of the conference between the Philade,-
phia Rapid Transit Company and the De-
partment Of City Transit said Director
Taylor in his statement.
This probram has been submitted TO
the CITY Councils Of Philadelphia and 10
the stockholders of the Union Traction
Company for consideration and final ac-
tioh.
The program provides. among other
things, for the elimination OF the scent
exchange tickets and the development Of
an adequate high-speed transportation
system in the city. which will afford the
free transfer OF passengers between high
speed hnes ana also between hleh-speed
lihes ana lhteTsecthE surface hnes' so
that II VIII pc possioLe Tor people 10 traNe.
Quickly ana cotniortaol% from every I'M
portant section OF the city To every other
important section Of the city for one 81
cent fare, by the joint use, when neces-
sary. Of Doth surface and hGh-speed lines
10 make the journey.
The program further provides plan
OF h"ancing the much needed extensions
NJ the existing surface Tins the
carrying out Of the proSrau will benefit
every section Of Philadelphia and every
'"'a'" "a rer, Inn iy1nart5r+ S,T Sacyor ,Ta mo-
gram is the provision which IS made for
the financing of surface extensions which
w.. N.i Gr 'g,.uIS'eD ON ,, o,t,'' 10 ,'Le q.
tions Of The civ are demanding such
facilities.
In West Philadelphia crosstown SUI
face line on 56th street j. greatly reeded.
'Ir the northeastern section additional
surface facilities are needed above
FTankford
In Germantown the people are very
pDbperly demanding the construction Of
line on Chew street o section now
built up but isolated.
'In South Philadelphia extensions u
the existing north ana south line further
southward will be a NECESSITY
''In the northwestern section there is
q great damand for additional rartH aud
south lines north Of Girard College and
also for much needed direct line T.,
Roxborough
In rha nortberD serrior n The .fty
tbsr. is an urgArt demand for "a ..rrye,.
line an Nor+h Tfptb street ana r.- a
Ai,sct nna IN Fov ,,bs.-
,.Srh. transir nroar,r, .,,- t,s ,-rr,.
r,aL,ss nrovisiop Tor tho rrr,fs ,.t,'l,
win be required TO bulld the necessary
suriaee extensions, in"S' oL "nle. ar"
,,arioTs sartioTs og .re ,.,,,
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CITY MUST NAME : 7'AN-
There now seems 20 be- a question as
IN who shall make The rrst. move ro,yzr-
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'he caiiS'"E ""' VI '''' "'"N'N t'"1' am
shall II be the cltF or snail the oitv
await favorable action hy Tie T'rf0p
FRACTION COMPANY
"I1nauestionablv il is the d4tv o. the
sitv 10 take the Initiative and 10 take
svery step necessary 10 secure sdaqrsrs
rapid transit facilities. with free trans
fArs and the necessary extensions uf sur
face lines for the people Of Phliade phla