Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-18
SUGGESTS SOLUTION OF
J|TNEY BUS PROBLEMS
Chairman English, of Sub
committee.
WOULD DESIGNATE ROUTES
Proposes to Make License Tax Fit
Value of Street to Be Used, and
to Require Reasonable Indemnity
Bond.

| Practical suggestions looking to a
traffic arc made in a letter addressed
last night by Dr. George Ross, a03
| Park Avenue, to Councilman Edgar B.
| English. chairman of the Ordinance
| Committee charged with drawing up a
regulatory measure. The subcommit-
! tee will hold an executive session for
this purpose at o'clock this after
! noon.
! Among the suggestions offered by
| DR.. Ross are rigid prosecutions of
| jitney spccdcrs, penalties for improper
! use of muttiers, prohibition of over
! loading, spacing between moving cars,
| specific routes of travel, n license tax
| varying with the streets to be ira
| versed, and bounding to n limit that
| does not prohibit the business
| SAYS JITNEY PROPERLY
CONTROLLED IS DESIRABLE
| DR., Ross was one of the citizens who
appeared before the Ordinance Com
| mittee last week to protest against the
unregulated jitney bus traffic. His let
ter TO Councilman English follows:
Permit mo to invoke your further
| Indulgence to the end that my views
on the now all-absorbing question of
| the jitney' business may be empha-
! sized and made record Of
First. 1 declare my conviction that
a properly distributed and controlled
| jitney' is a desirable acquisition to
the passenger traffic of our expanding
community. But, as now existing. it
| is neither properly controlled nor dis
| tributcd, and Is both n nuisance and a
! constant menace to human life. The
! rapid passing of 225 cars in one hour,
| and of seventytwo cors In ten minutes
| by actual count, would seem to Justify
! the latter statement. Some essentials
! to the minimizing of such public
nuisance, and one so disastrously in
ringing on the rights Of suffering
| c1tizenship-law abiding and gencr-
ously tax payinG-to enjoy the peace
and quiet OF their home life suggest
! themselves to me, and 1 venture to
| tabulate them.
WOULD ENFORCE RIGIDLY
CITY'S SPEED ORDINANCE
Il. Rigidly enforce the maximum
speed limit law by arrest of offenders,
and fine or imprisonment.
| w. Penalize reckless, improper use
of muf1iers and needless horn blowing.
%. Forbid the overlooking OF cars;
tie standing within or on the running
board Of cars. and the sitting on their
doors.
{ "a Prescribe a specific distance to
be observed between cars in motion
"5. Impose license, tax-varying as
to traversed streets, and bond all
operators or owners OF cars to the
limit that does not prohibit the bust
ness.
&c. Specifically route all car lines
and require readable sign Indicating
its route on each car
SUGGESTS DESIGNATION
OF DEFINITE ROUTES
Il submit for your consideration and
analysis the suhjoined proposed rout-
ing. and assume the starting point to
be Tenth and Broad Streets, and west
ern limits Robinson Street or the
Boulevard
Il. Broad to Ninth Street, then West
Grace to limit of route.
'2. Broad to Bclvdcre Street, thence
South to Franklin, and west TO limit
3. Broad to Laurel Street, thence
south to Floyd, and west to limit
Il. Broad to Laurel or Shafer Streets
thence south TO Park or Grove Avenues
and west to limit.
IS. Broad to Harrison Street, Thence
South to Hanover Avenue and ives, tc
limit.
Is. Broad to Lombardy Street, thence
South to Stuart Avenue and west tc
limit"