The sun., 1919-10-18
MANY CHANGES
ION NBROOKLYN'S
TRACTION MAP
Three Lines Abandoned and
$50 Transfer Points Are
Abolished, Leaving Is.
10 CENTS oNsNINE ROUTES
New Schedules, Effective at
Midnight Tonight, viii
Puzzle Travellers.

Puzzle Travellers.
Federal Judge Julius NJ. Mayer
signed yesterday the formal order
whereby the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company win surrender at midnight
tonight to the Brooklyn City Railroad
the twenty-eight surface lines consti-
tuting the bulk of Brooklyn's surface
car system. sa
simultaneously with the surrender
the following changes will go into ef-
feet: A 10 cent fare on nine lines where
the fare now is 5 cents: abolition of
transfers at upward Of 450 points; dis
continuance of three lines; twenty
changes in routes on the Brooklyn
City lines and eleven on the b. r. T.
Altogether the transit map Is SO al
tered that 1t Will bear little resem-
blance to the old familiar but impov-
erished system. ,trr "c
Details of the new fare and route
schedules to be adopted by the Brook
lyn City road were explained to the
public In statements issued yesterday.
The routing changes on twenty lines
OF the Brooklyn City company are:
Bushwick avenue line to terminate at
Wyckon avenue. borough line; Bergen
Beach shuttle to extend to Nostrand
and Flatbush avenues. Flatbush avenue
Line to terminate at Flatbush and Nos
LAT
to extend TO Flatbush and Nostrand ave-
nues, Flushing g-knickerbocker line dis
continued, Flushing -Ridsewood line to
extend TO Wyckoff avenue, borough line
Fulton street line to terminate at Ala
oama avenue. Greenpoint line rerouted
via Myrtle avenue to Borough Hall,
Grand street shuttle to run from Grand
street and Marcy avenue to Broadway
ferry. Greene and Gates avenue line to
terminate at Wyckon avenue. Nostrand
avenue shuttle to terminate at East
Thirtieth street. Kings Highway; Rich
mond Hill line to extend to Wyckoff
avenue
10th Avenue Line Shortened.
Sixteenth avenue line to run between
Stxty-third street and Gravesend avenue
only, Third avenue line to terminate at
6txty-ffth street. Union avenue line to
terminate at Wyckof avenue, wyckoff
avenue shuttle discontinued. Thirty ninth
street and Fort Hamilton line discon-
tinued. Sixty-nfth street and Bay Ridge
avenue line to run to Sixty-ffth street
and Third avenue on surface, Sixty-fifth
street and Fort Hamilton line to run to
Sixty street and Third avenue on
surface
Changes incident to the severance
win be effected In the B. r. T lines. as
announced by Receiver Lindley NJ. GAR
rison. as follows:
The Montague street line will become
shuttle between Hicks street and
Borough Hall. Flatbush-Seventh avenue
line to run via Flatbush, Fifth, Atlantic,
F1atbush avenues. Livingston. Court.
Joralemon, Fulton streets. Boerum place
and Livingston street: St Johns place
line viii follow the same route a. the
Rogers avenue line. namely. via Flat
bush avenue. Livingston, Court, Jorale-
mon, Fulton streets. Boerum place
Hicks street line to be shuttle between
Hamilton and Atlantic avenues. Sixty
NTH street and Eighty-sixth street line
70 run from Eighteenth avenue station
via West End right of way. Bath. Four
teenth avenues, Eighty-sixth street.
Fifth avenue; Broadway line to run via
Fulton. and Crescent streets to Cypress
Hills, Jamaica avenue line to run via
Crescent and Fulton streets to Alabama
avenue, Broadway ferry shuttle to be
operated between Bridge plaza and
Broadway ferry only. Wyckoff avenue
line to terminate at Wyckon and Myrtle
avenues. Gravesend avenue line to ex-
tend from Sixteenth avenue to Ninth
avenue and Twentieth street.
Basic Fare Is Five Cents.
The notice issued by the Brooklyn
City roads general manager. II. Hobart
Porter, explained that the Ave cent fare
will be charged for each passenger IL
years of age and over. and a three
cent fare for children between tho ages
OF and IL years.
1t Is estimated that the abolition of
transfers VIII affect $50 points where
transfers are exchanged now for two
cents. The b. r. T. viii continue its
two cent transfer charge on its own
lines. The elimination of transfers IL
equivalent to an increase in fare for
many car riders.
ON long haul lines the Brooklyn City
win establish zones SO that the through
fare will become ten cents instead OF
five, while In many cases q change of
cars will be necessitated by reason Of
the reroutings The nine lines where
ten cent fares will be introduced are:
F1atbush avenue. beyond Nostrand
avenue; 1; Nostrand avenue, beyond Flat
bush avenue Thfrd avenue. beyond Six
ty-fitth street; Greene and Gates ave-
nues. beyond Queens Borough boundary |;
Myrtle avenue, beyond Queens boundary /:
Bushwick avenue. beyond the sare
boundary; Union avenue, beyond ne
same boundary; Wyckoff avenue, BE-
yond the same boundary, and Fulton
street, beyond Alabama avenue
A similar resulting fare increase IL
produced by single fare zones which the
brooklyn City will establish on the Cy-
press Hills, Grand street and Flushing
avenue lines. The zone line IL the
boundary between Brooklyn and Queens
IN each case.
Bus Lines for the Suburbs.
So sweeping are the changes and the
sxpected Inconvenience to the public that
Public Works Commissioner Joseph A.
suider 10 to call a conference OF public
officials to consider the operation Of
buses. particularly in the suburbs which
are the most affected. He declared yes
terday that he already has planned for
100 buses. which could be put into opera
ficn on short notice.
The order signed by Judge Mayer
authorizing the severance OF the surface
lines was precipitated by the inability OF
the B. r. T. to pay $4,000 rentals for
the surface lines and the consequent de-
uand of the owners for the surrender
of the property. 1t thus ended COM
psrat.voiy premGturely the 800 year
Lease begun In 1893.