The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
'NTNEY ADVOCATES
 ]. SAY II IS MATTER OF GIVING SERVICE
Get Home for Meals Now, Street Cars Forced Them In Restaurants-0therS Say
 Cars Built City

Jitney service has many advocates, most of them passing their approval hn quick service.
 No few believe the gas vehicle has lome to stay in public transportation 1t low price.
 Some of the views of citizens as ex- pressed yestrday are as follows: l.. E. Dunlap, 40 Twenty-first street, horth, said; The jitneys should not be Eliminated. they furnish rapid transit. At the same time they should follow regular routes and the operators made responsible as are other transportation , concerns. On the other hand, the street bar company must face the motor vehicles adaptability to short haul travel. It is folly to sit back and Ignore it.
 NOT THE PRICE
 ~Higher carfare will not do it. use the cars several times a day incident to my business, If the carfare is again raised, l shall use bicycle, tin lizzie' pr some other substitute. The people hAc ShllLieu IO the benefit or every modern invention and the motor ~Sehicle is one of them"
 Charles F. Yarn, Fourteenth avenue, south, sad: Ut is a bigger matter than appears on the surface. It seems to me that eventually Birmingham has got to come to greater use of the gasoline ve- hicle, as is done in other cities The Fifth avenue, N. r., bus line is very pop hlar with the people, who walk one and two blocks out of their way to ride in them. They are operated regularly over pertain routes and have starters and watchers all along the routes to keep them moving in good shape. s4 WELL HANDLED
 'The New York motor busses issue transfers the same as the electric cars. Regulation Is the present problem in Bir- bingham, but we might as well look ahead to what seems to be inevitable"
 Charles c. Davis. president of the Bir- hingham Automobile club, said
 sThe jitneys should certainly be reg nlated They should be made to have regular routes and these routes should hot be along the car tracks. It Is all right to talk about competition, but we should also remember what we owe to The street car system in the development bf suburban Birmingham. But for it workers could not live on the outskirts in economic homes
 Ut is essentially a practical proposi- ton. The street car system is a respon- sible one and should not be sacrificed to lrreSponsibles and the unregulated."
 MATTER OF SERVICE
 Miss Blanch Housman of Fifteenth street. south, said: Tt is a matter Of rapid transit with me and other women who are employed in downtown offices Since the jitneys have been operating but my way we have quicker service to and from the city.
 Prior to the inauguration of the jitney regime 1t was impossible to go home for lunch and have good home meal. Now that is easily done and lots of people take their noon meals at home instead of at restaurants.
 Tt is not prejudice against the car company. In fact, for one prefer the car, but I want service first. That is what the jitney has given" 7 Lieut. J. c. McCollum, 7032 First avenue, north, said: "The jitney is the natural result of the failure of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company to comply with it's franchise by giving the people good service. 1t is the result of the rapid growth of Birmingham which caught the street car company unprepared and without sufficient equipment to handle the peo- pie. The immense transportation sit- nation that has arisen can only be solved by the use of the jitney, for with its antequated equipment and Comparatively small number of cars the street car company has demon strated that it can not give sufficient service.
 "As for the jitneys not being respon- eible for accidents. how about the street railway company? I am sure that there are judgments against the street car company lying in the courts because 1t has not sufficient funds 10