The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-09-09
North Bridgeport To Be
Entirely w i t h o u t
Transportation--Other
Sections of the City To
Be Treated Likewise
Meeting of Busmen
Postponed Until To-
night.

To bring the riding public of
Bridgeport into the present traffic
situation as soon as possible the jit-
lney drivers expect to establish their
routes to conform with the ordinance
passed by the Board of Aldermen on
Saturday morning, giving the riding
public a notice of "a hours of their
Intention. This plan, however, will
not be definitely decided until after
= the meeting in the Machinists' union
rooms, 1880 Broad street, tonight.
Owing to a del.v in obtaining a
permit to hold the meeting, the ses-
sion scheduled for this morning was
put over until tonight when a large
majority of the jitney drivers will
be on hand to give their views on
the matter.
Under the ordinance, passed by the
aldermen, persons living north of
Savoy street will be without any ser
vice and the same will be true of
those residing in North Bridgeport.
Beardsley Park and the Stratfield
districts will be entirely eliminated.
Neither will .here be any service on
Seaview avenue, East Main street,
from Arctic street to the General
Electric plant, and the persons iv-
ing south of State street will have
to walk to Fairfield avenue to get
transporta tion.
North Bridgeport persons who have
been in the habit of riding will have
TO walk to the corner of Madison ave-
nue. and North avenue to get a jitney,
while the nearest jitney to the Boards
ley park section will be on Crescent
avenue.
Employees of the Lake Torpedo
Boat Company may take a jitney to
the corner of Stratford avenue and
connecticut avenue. but from there
they will have to walk the remainder
of the distance.
Persons residing east of North Main
street will be forced to walk to Wayne
street or Madison avenue to get any
conveyance and then they will be sub
Ijected to the Inconvenience of going
down East Washington avenue to
lgIousatonic avenue and Water street
where the nearest they can get to
the center is the railroad station.
Jitneymen are anxious to establish
the new routes just soon posi-
bile in order that they may accustom
the riding public where they may OBJ
tain the jitneys. BY putting the new
routes into effect Immediately the jit-
neymen hope to teach the people
where the jitney stops are before the
trolly cars get started on their regular
trips on Sept. 20.
Ihey also expect the pubic TO
make a vigorous protest against the
ordinance so that when the Board of
Aldermen holds it's meeting on Mon
day night. Sept. 20, a fair sized rep
resentation will be on hand to tell the
aldermen how we'll they have looked
after their interest in the traffic mat
ter.
Today the disgrpntled jitneym en-
who in protest of the ordinance pass
ed by the aldermen refused to operate
their cars yesterday were back at
their work today conveying people on
the various lines and they will be at
1.-THE meeting tonight to voice their
iprotkst against the action of the alder
men, who they claim have played into
the hands of the Connecticut Com
pany instead of giving the public its
chance to make a decision.
In his letter to Mayor Wilson
President Storrs says:
Now that the city of Bridgepor
has expressed its preference for the
electric railway operation with buse:
mainly regulated to a complimen
Itary service, we will be prepared t.
resume service on Sept. 20, and viii
give the people of Bridgeport tn,
best service that can be produced
with the facilities which the com
lpany controls. We feel confiden
Slthat we will be able to satisfy tn,
public in this regard and trust tha
in the future the relations betwee1
the city and the company may al
WAYS be upon a co-operative basis"