New-York tribune., 1920-03-21
Five-Cent Fare
ToConey Island
Effective May /
Construction Com
missioner and B. r. T.
Officials r e a c h Agree.
ment as to City's Contract
Ten Cents Present Charge
Understanding Is That De-
lay in Equipment Will
Not Affect Arrangement

A five-cent fare to Coney Island will
be in effect beginning May 1. Arrange
ments were completed yesterday be-
tween John H. Delaney, Transit Con-
struction Commissioner, and officials
of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
by which it has been agreed that the
city's part Of rapid transit contract No.
will be completed at that time to the
extent that the clause providing for the
five-cent fare to and from Coney Island
will be effective.
A clause of the contract provides that
the five-cent fare is to 60 into effect
when trains may be operated for con-
tinuous trips wholly over connected
the Culver and West End lines, from
the Municipal Building to the points at
or near Coney Island at which construc-
tion of the railroad shall be suspended" )"
The five-cent fare will apply to all the
lines of the New York Municipal Rail-
road Corporation, which is the operat-
ing company of all the subway and ele-
waited lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit system.
The West End line has been COM
pleted for some time and the city,
owned section of the Culver line was
suspended at Sheepshead Bay, Incl
dental to an agreement of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit officials to complete the
culver STRUCTURE from that point to
the Coney Island terminal. Commits
sioner Delaney has been urging the
city contractors to "speed up" work on
the final section of the city-owned
part of the Culver line, and practically
all of the city's work will be completed
within three weeks. The Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company is following up
the city contractors. with third rail
and other equipment work and expects
to have the section between Sleeps
head Bay Road and the Coney Island
terminal completed and equipped be-
fore May 1.
Delaney, acting for the city and the
event of the equipment of the final sec
ton of the Culver line not being
finished by May l the city's part Of
the contract will be recognized as hav-
ing been completed and the five-cent
fare will be effective on all rapid
transit lines running to Coney Island.
BY the agreement it will be possible
Tor the passengers to ride between Six
tieth Street, Manhattan, and Coney
IS land over the Sea Beach, West End,
Culver and Brighton lines for Scent
100 A'N SCINlCc Will Uc 0XCGnQoQ
during the summer so as to include a
continuous scent ride from the Corona
and Steinway sections of Queens, on
brooklyn Rapid Transit trains, to
Coney Island.
1t is estimated that the running time
between Times Square and Coney ISL
and will be forty minutes by the Sea
Beach line, and forty-five minutes be-
tween Park Row and Coney Island by
the Brighton line. The distance be-
tween Coney Island and Queens Plaza
is approximately eighteen and a hall
miles and the distance between Coney
Island and Times Square about sixteen
miles.
Under existing conditions second
fares have been collected from pas
sengers bound for Coney Island at
Eighty-sixth Street, Brooklyn, on the
Sea Beach line; at Fiftieth Street on
the West End line, and at Sheepshead
Bay on the Brighton line. Second
fares have been collected from passen-
gers bound from Coney Island at
Eighth Avenue on the Sea Beach line.
Prospect Park on the Brighton line
and at Ninth Avenue on the West End
and Culver lines