Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-20
PUBLIC UTILITY
ENDORSEMENT Of
TROLLEY PLANS
State Board Gives Its Sanction
TO Proposed Changes in
Newark System.
NECESSITY OF PARALLEL
LINES is EMPHASIZED
Reasons for Sectional Improves
ments and Rerouting Given.
Present Lines inadequate.

In a long report handed down today
the Public Utility Commission alp.
proves Of the Newark trolley ordi-
nances agreed upon between the
Board of Street and Water Comn1is-
sioners and the Public Service Rail-
way Company. The ordinances bear
on the proposed changes in the local
trolley system in order to relieve the
congestion at Broad and Market
streets and also to make available
the use of the new terminal station
in Park place.
After calling attention TO the con-
ferences between the street railway
people and the Board of Works, in
July and August, 1913, the report
speaks of the fact that in 1910 New
ark, according to the Federal census.
had a population of 347, 900, while it
was the traffic centre of population
! of 10000. There are twenty-one car
lines, of which eight are purely local
| lines, while thirteen are suburban or
| interurban lines In 1911 the twenty-
one lines carried $4,000, 900 passen-
| gers.
"The problem, therefore" states the
report, "is one affecting the metro-
! politan district rather than one af-
| fecting the city of Newark only
| The report cites that the Public
| Utility Commission beside having the
reports of its own engineers also has
access to information gathered by
| engineers of the railroad company
and of the city. The report con-
| tinues.
1T is shown that there is a lack OF
safe, adequate and proper street rail.
way service and that the fundamen-
tai cause, thereof is the concentra-
tion of the traffic within a narrow
area and consequent congestion.
Permanent Relief.
The congestion is Attributable ip
the major part to lack of adequate
terminal or looping facilities, and
| that permanent relief can only come
/ through the creation and use in street
railway service of thoroughfarea
parallel TO Broad and Market streets
In the congested district"
The report then takes up in detail
the plans outlined for the various
loops and new tracks necessary fov
the use of the terminal station and
for the relief of the existing lines,
The report says that the Central ave-
nue. and Warren street connections
east into Central avenue will provide
facilities in loop formed by tracks
in Central avenue, Washington.
Bank, Market and Warren streets.
This loop might be employed in the
trlpper service of the Orange line,
the report points out.
The second track in High street
from Springfield avenue to Market
street will provide other loops, 1t Is
pointed out. This loop will consist OF
tracks in High. Warren, Washington
and Market streets and Springfield
avenue. and could be utilized too,
for tripper service on the Springfield
and South Orange avenue lines
Loop Facilities.
Continuing, the report says that
other connections and extensions au-
thorized would provide what might
be called a loop consisting of tracks
in Green, Mulberry Front, Bridge
and Broad streets.
This loop might be used by the
Clinton, Elizabeth Main, Trenton and
the proposed Perth Amboy line cars,
II is said. Cars going north could be
operated through Green, Mulberry,
Front, Bridge and Broad streets, re-
turning south on Broad streets.
The report calls attention to the
fact that the subway from the terrnf-
nal sation will cross underneath Park
place. the apex of Military Park.
Broad, Cedar and Halsey streets, COM
| ing to the surface at a point on pri-
Vate property between Halsey and
Washington streets. The cars using
the subway would reach Washington
street at grade, and thence go north
or south as their routes demanded.
Every angle of the proposed
changes is given in the report, which
is appended below:
| These applications bring before the
board certain ordinances adopted by
the Board of Street and Water Conn
missloners of the city of Newark.
The purpose of the ordinances is to
admit of putting into effect a com~
prehensive plan formulated by the
| companies for the Improvement of this
street railway transportation facili~
ties Of the city.
In so far as the ordinances relate
to the Public Service Railway Com
pany they are laid before the board
in accordance with p. l.. 1911, Chap
ter 1876, Section "a.
In so far as they relate to the Pub
lie Service Newark Terminal Railway
Company they are brought before the
board in pursuance to z. L. 1918,
Chapter 50.
Favorable action by the board upon
! these applications requires primarily
hat It's consideration of the several
ordinances shall result in deterini-
nation that the grants made thereby
are necessary and proper for the pub
lie convenience, and that In such
| conserved.
The board must therefore, consider
present condito ons and the changes
in these conditions which the or
dinances require, and which they viii
admit.
Expert Advice.
In its consideration OF these ordi-
nances the board has had the benefit
not only of the results OF studies
made by its engineer, but also o.
those made by engineers On Dehalf
of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners. of the City Plan
| Commission, and Of the companies.
I 1t has also had the benefit of inde-
pendent studies made by Delos u.
Wilcox. 1t has also had the aid cf
the extended discussion of the prob
lem by members of the municipai
board and by residents of the city
at the hearings which nave been held-
| This material now forms pars of the
records of the board. 1t has sup
plemented these studies by putting at
least one of the suggestion made to !.
/ the test of experiment.
Careful consideration of all of this
material. and of the results of this
experiment, lead the board to tho
conclusion that the several grants
made BY the ordinances submitted
are necessary and proper for the pubs
! lie convenience: that the public In
! terest is thereby properly conserved
| and chat the ordinances should -
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