The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-09

tional for each transfer, making a ride to town cost us 10 cents. That is too much and we do not want to pay that premium for jitneys to t few people of the city. The commits sion can solve this matter fairly and justly by making the jitneys operate on the same basis as the cars. That should not meet with any opposition, for competition should be fair"
 Birmingham is not thickly enough l populated to have two transporta- tion systems, according to Joseph r. Mudd, 2200 Ridge Park avenue, and the people should decide now which one they want, the jitneys or tho street cars. "The city commission n would not license another car com- | pany to lay it's tracks on the same ! route the car company uses. yet they allow the jitneys to operate on the same route and thus create two competing lines" said MT. Mudd "As result neither one makes enough profit to give decent service and sooner or later the people will have | to choose between the two. Since | the jitneys operate only, in fair and | warm weather and very little late at night, l choose the street cars" | o. l.. Bum said: T think the street car company, like all other utilities, should have revenue with which to operate, but 1 cannot figure this out of an Scent car fare. Experience has shown that every rise in price of utility drives some persons away from it if they can get away. There are those who can get away from the street cars and those who are suf- ficiently in earnest about it will do so
 The prospect of Scent car fare has already made some persons think of the bicycle again. Certain it is 1 that many minds are figuring already on getting from under an additional car fare.'
 | J. M. Dewberry said The Scent car fare is a mistake to say the least. It will not bring more revenue and chances are that it will bring less. To my mind the first mistake was in raising the fare from the original 1 5 cents. Each raise in the fare gets people to think of walking and 60, l ing other things to escape the extra burden.
 "The higher the fare the more ex- cuse for the jitney and the more ot | ! is a serous municipal problem. but the continuous raise of fare is not the solution. On the contrary, 1t tends the ether way"
 "The B. R., l.. Ss P. Go. would make more money with d 5-cent fare than with an s. said T.. NJ. Jones. T live 1 in East Lake and have three in my family coming to town on the car every day. If they raise the fare to cents there will be but one thing | for me to do buy car myself
 "There are a lot more people in Birmingham who will do the same thing, too, and the B. R., l.. & P. Co. will certainly lose money" | q don't feel that the car company | has done the right thing for the public" said 0. w. Bragan. If they l had left the car fare at cents the public would have continued to ride the cars As it is, people are all r,i- | ing jitneys, and if the fare goes to cents the jitneys will flourish more than ever"
 ,The reason that there are 50 many jitneys is not due altogether to the fact that the fare on the street l cars is high" said V. E. Gates. II lis due partly to unemployment Men out of work have begun driving Jit- neys for living,
 Tt seems to me that so far as the car company is concerned the solution for them is a 5-cent fare and good service. Then the people will begin riding the cars agaM'