Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-02
MOTOR BUSES, LONG ESTABLISHED ON
STREETSOFE EUROPEAN CITIES, TAKING
PLACE Of NEW YORK TROLLEY LINES
Mayor Hylan of Metropolis De-
clares That Day of Surface
Street Car Is Gone Forever
suffering Broadway.

Broadway, New York. the costliest
and best known street in the world
Is to do away with its street cars and
have motor buses exclusively for pas
senger carrying on the street surface.
Mayor Hylan Of New York City has
declared that the day of the street
surface car has gone forever He fa-
vors> the establishment. of bus lines
everywhere in the five boroughs and
the complete eradication of the street
car lines, tracks. traffic blocking by
crowded cars, and everything asso-
ciated with them.
New York was the last big city to
abandon the ancient horse car line, but
about the first to adopt the under
ground cable and trolley systems for
surface cars.
ALWAYS TORN UP
The buildings, maintenance and con-
slant repairs for these made the for
tunes of many contractors and "the
men higher up" and kept Broadway
constantly torn up for years before the
subway came to continue the noise and
nuisance for further dozen years.
Perhaps no street in existence has
been torn up, put back again. eXcavated
and rebuilt SO many times over per
Rod of 40 years, while business con-
Germs patiently paid rent and taxes,
and suffered, until the general migra-
ton uptown left whole sections of the
great thoroughfare deserted and prac-
tically dead.
Magnetic equipped motor buses are
running profitably in most of the big
cities of Europe, notably London, and
Paris, for Is years. Their records of
cost, mileage and passenger carrying
have proved them better in every way
than the surface trolley cars and the
savings in the cost of laying tracks,
roadway, construction and repairs are
enormous.
PUBLIC cLAMoRS
Although trolley lines are still used
in the suburbs and interurban service
these also are giving way to the ad-
vance of the more popular motor bus,
which in England, particularly before
the war, made long trips into the coun-
try for hundreds of miles and journeyed
in every direction.
The mayor was impressed by the re-
ports and by the success and profitable
growth of the Fifth avenue motor buses
of New York in the last thirteen years;
by the clamor of the public for better
service, and the demands of the Inter
borough subway. surface and elevated
lines for increased fares.
During the last five years the New
York, Chinatown and Coney Island
sightseeing" cars, CARRYING about so
passengers each. have steadily increas-
ed in numbers. These proved the posi-
bilities of carrying ever increasing
numbers of passengers through the
crowded cars and byways of the great
city and far into the country.
CITY TRUCKS WILL COME
The mayor further states that while
he is not at the moment contemplating
any city owned motor truck service for
the markets. TO help bring about re-
duced prices of food and closer touch
between the farmer and public with the
markets, it will undoubtedly become
possible as soon as the new Hudson
river tunnel for vehicle traffic is COM
pleted.
The entire street railway system of
the state of New Jersey is controlled
by the public service corporation of
New Jersey. and they have, after re-
peatedly raising the fare, adopted a
zone basis of fares. In some cases this
means as much as 35 cents for a single
fare--yet motor buses in New Jersey
and elsewhere carry millions of pas
sengers daily at cent fares, and earn
magnificent profits for their owners.