Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-12
APPROVES ORDINANCE FOR
REGULATION OF J|TNEYs
Committee Adopts LoOp-Route Plan
ns Solution Of Conges-
ton Evil.
BOND is REDUCED TO 200,
Additional Cars Operated by Same
Owner Must Give $500 Indemnity.
Ordinance Seeks Otherwise to
Safeguard Jitney Bus Operation.

| BY IA vote OF > to 3 the Council
/ ordinance committee last night rec
commended to the Council for passage
an amended ordinance designed to
regulate jitncy bus traffic in this city
by requiring an indemnity bond, by
defining certain routes and by pro-
vidinS IA dinrrential license tax nd
justcd to the seating capacity OF the
cars and the supposed differences I'm
the values OF The routes.
The committee devoted most of it's
three hour session To IL consideration
of the routing question Early In the
discussion the body abandoned the
iivc-routc scheme of the subcommit-
tees ordinance and east about far a
better solution. For time il APP
pcnrcd that il would be- necessary to
refer the route question to smbcom-
mittec. no suggestions seeming to meet
, with the support Of a majurity of the
committee.
ORDINANCE PROVIDES
TWO LOOP ROUTES
After much comforting with citizens
and frequent caucuscs the committee
hnally approved these three routes:
Roui" No. |, i'll the form of loop
beginning. al Broad street 1T Twelfth,
westward along Broad Ia Belvidcre,
( south on Belviderc To Grace. up Grace
Ia the Boulevard, south on the Boulc-
ward I" Monument Avenue. down
to Belvidere, north on Bclviderc TO
BROAD and down Broad TO the starting
point at Twelfth. The route was pro-
posed by Alderman Fuller and unani-
mously adopted.
Route Nc. =. also in the form OF
loop-Beginning on Broad Street at
Twelfth. westward on Broad to Bel
viderc, south on Belvidcre TO Frank
iin up Franklin TO Lombardy, south
on I.ombardy To Hanover, up Hanover
To the Boulevard. south on the Boule-
ward to Grove, down Grove to Park.
down Park to Laurel, north on Laurel
10 Franklin, down Franklin To Bel
viderc north on Belvidere 10 Broad
and down Broad to the starting point
at Twelfth street. This route was
proposed by Councilman English and
was adopted by Il unanimous vote.
Route No 2. proposed by Alderman
Paul and unanimously adopted--i1e-
ginning at Tenth and Main Streets. up
Main 10 the Boulevard and returning
b. the same route To the starting point.
REIIEVE I00r WILL.
cur CONGESTION N HALF
The committee took heartily 10 the
loop idea as cutting in half the traffic
on Grove and other West End ave-
nucs comgcstcd with itncy traffic.
Under the routing scheme provided in
the ordinance the jitneys will travel
on the West End avenues only in one
direction. the trip in the opposite d.
rcction being made on another nearby
street.
In order further to reduce the con-
Sestion on Grove Avenue, and TO dis
tribute the iitney traffic over several
streets, the ordinance provides for
substantially higher license for Route
No. >, which contains Grove Avenue,
than is charged for the other two
routes.
The license schedule provided by the
ordinance follows:
Routes No. ! and 3-Four- pa sscnSer.
$50 for the first car and sa5 for addi-
tional cars operated by the same own
err five To eight passengers, $40 and
s25; nine passengers and more $50
and $35.
Route No. -Four passengers. $50
cars operated by the same owner: i've
10 eight passengers. $50 and Si5: nine
passengers and more, }75 and $50.
INDEMNITY BOND Is
REDUCED no $4,000
Upon the motion of Councilman
Welsh the committee reconsidered the
vote by which. at its Last meeting, IL
approved an indemnity bond OF $1,000
for the first car, and $1,000 for addi-
tional cars operated by the same owner.
In the place of this bond the commit
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