The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-08

could be stationed all Naround the ball
park to handle the crowd and each bus
could start AZ soon as II was filed.
This would apply 70 allsbig gather
mgs such as parades. The surface car
INES are always paralyzed at the con"
cIusion OF any big event In this city.
That Ii because the fastest car Is gov
erned In speed by the slowest one on
tne same track Buses would eliminate
all these delays at once.
After theatre at night there could
De concentration of buses in the thea
tire district starting out in all direc-
lions. In the early morning most of the
buses could be uptown ready to bring
the crowds down to work. In the late
afternoon they could be concentrated
downtown ready to give our tired peo-
pie decent. pleasant ride up home
with seat guaranteed FOR everybody.
This would end the strap hanging
days OF New York. There could be two
types OF buses. There could be a single
deck bus for sections where the trafflc
Is light, and there could be a big double
deck bus carrying so to 100 people for
the sections where trafiic Is heavy.
when We get a big feet OF municipal
buses at work the surface car lines will
simply 60 out of business, and after
they stop operating we will lift up their
tracks and our people will wonder why
We countenanced them for so many
years after they had outlived their day,
"One additional advantage the bus
will have over the surface car lines will
be express service, both going down.
town In the morning and certain buses
to 60 long distances without stopping.
For instance. may OF the buses could
be sent to the river front, and without
stopping between Fifty-ninth street to
the City Hall make wonderful time even
within the present day speed limit.
OF course I expect big fight over
this-one ~of the biggest fights any
Mayor ever had-and 1 suppose some OF
the public officials will be in sympathy
with the traction people. But am
going to make the hght for municipal
buses. because I think 1t Is the only up
to-date idea in traction that has been
advanced.
Ready for Traction Fight.
let the traction robbers 20 RICH,
along trying to gouge the public.
Will have the city's legal force fight
them to the limit, and / know that the
public is with me all the way. And
while they are trying to rob our people
we Will simply create new traction
method that will leave them with q
worthless system on which the people
won't ride at any price.
Traction people will begin to have
all kinds of objections to bus operation
They will probably tell US we will have
tire trouble and that we will have tc
repave lots of the streeta expect
them to be very insidious and active
against me. But when we call the
automobile people and the tire people
In to help us solve these problems / an
sure they will be mighty glad to see
the biggest city in the world modernizs
Its traction methods and they will wipe
out all such objections
The plain fact Is that the tractor
people see the handwriting on the wall
and II we bought their surface railway,
to-day at a fabulous price they would
be around tomorrow asking US for bul
line franchises. as they know that 1.
the coming method Of. transportation II
| this city.
II propose to beat them at their owr
| game. and that is why / want every
man and woman in New York to begir
| thinking about how much nicer It would
be to have municipal bus lines. with
clean. fast service, and a seat guaran
| teed for every passenger.
The people who control traction II
New York to-day would give their verJ
soul to be able to get a franchise from
the city to put five or ten Thousand
buses in our streets And they wont
gladly throw all of the surface line
apparatus into the junk heap IT, they
found they could not work 1t of on the
city. ..--t-
IF the public OF New York does MOI
think that the traction people want bul
service. let me call attention to tn,
fact that they already control the Fifth
avenue bus lines. and every day they
are trying to get permission to extenf
the operation OF that line into variou.
parts of the city"
The Board of Estimate on, Tuesda,
unanimously passed a resolution asking
the Department OF Plant and Structures
to make an investigation OF the feast
bility of the city's operating bus line,
| in each of the fiva horouoba