The Topeka state journal., 1918-09-24
SKIP STOP PEANS
Topeka Street Car Conserva-
tion Schedule Is Ready.
New Plan Into Effect by First
of October.


Plans for the skip-stop system to
be installed on the street railway lines
Of Topeka have been completed. ac-
cording to = statement made today by
c. H. Danner. county fuel adminis-
traitor.
For the last week C. H. Danner and
Howard Patten of the street railway
system have been going over the lines
with a view to figuring out the stops
so that they would comply best with
the regulations of the government ana
at the same time afford the most con-
yenience to the patrons of tile railway
system.
From Tenth street to Gordon street
in North Topeka the cars will step on
every corner. AS this is the prtncipat
business street in the town 1t woui9
cause a great deal OF inconvenience y
passengers were compelled to Walk
back block or more to arrive at their
destination or get off q block or SO too
soon
Danner says the idea is to combine
both obedience to the government reg
ulations and at the same time furnlsn
the most convenient accommodations
On Kansas avenue the cars will stop
| on the near side of the street. as they
will all over town. with the exception
of south bound cars at Eighth street,
where they will stop on the south side
of the street.
Danner says that as people have
grown accustomed to using that side
] of the street. the transfer station
which was there for so many years,
educated them up to that and then
| there Is a policeman always on duty
| watching the traffic and trying to see
| that the people do not walk into the
| cars or automobiles, that it is the logi-
cal place to stop. The idea of attain
ried out thruout the plan. At Sixth
street on Kansas avenue, cars will
probably stop at both corners as
there are cars running four directions
| on that corner and 1t il a larger trans
| ferring point even than at Eighth and
Kansas avenues. At other corners
where the same conditions are true,
cars will probebly make two stops.
| Parallel Line Arrangements.
Off of Kansas avenue the plans will
| call for stops at every other corner
except at corners where there are
may be that two consecutive stops will
be made. Conditions at the particular
points will determine just what will
be done. Parallel lines running west
win be arranged so that one line will
stop on a north and south street while
the line next running parallel to it will
skip that street. In this way people
living in between these lines can walk
to the nearsst stop after they have
learned the stops in their neishbor-
hood.
The plan, according to Danner, will
be put into effect about the first of
the month. Patten is arranging to
have signs installed around town on
all lines similar to those which haye
| been used on the midDlock stops on
Kansas avenue which have been dis
| continued under the new order.
| It is planned to have them read
"Cars Stop Here" Danner desires
also to have these signs in place as
does Patten in order that as little in
| convenience as possible may accrue to
L the patrons of the line.
dN The system will not affect time
schedules much. Danner says II will
probably speed them up some which
i might tend to slower running cars. but
little difference will be found with the
new system. The only advantage. says
Danner, will be the coal saved at the
] power plants, 1t Is the starting and
stopping which eats UP the power just
the same as it does in motor cars.
Eliminating many OF these operations
is what will save the coal. Starting, OF
| courts, uses up much more power
than the other operation.