The Connecticut labor news., 1921-10-14
GRAND AVENUE BUSINESS MEN WANT CARS REROUTED THROUGH
 THAT NOW BUSY THOROUCHFARE
Send Petition to Connecticut Com pany Asking That They Be Given Chance to Get Some of Their Own Business.

Merchants along Grand avenue, through an association they have formed, have petitioned the COnneC- ticut company to reroutc trolley cars from other parts of the city than at present, so that that now busy thor oughfarc may get some of the busl- ness of the city, which they believe would be theirs if it was convenient for the public to reach them. They ask that cars connect Wcstville, Hamden, Highwood and the Win chester avenue district with the Grand avenue section and Fair Haven will pass through Elm street and do away with great number of unnecessary delays.
 It is the contention of the Grand avenue merchants that as the street cars on these lines are now routed customers living in the western and northwestern parts of the city are unnecessarily delayed in reaching the stores in Grand avenue, being shunted to Chapel street instead ot through Elm street the most direct route It is to accommodate these people, say the merchants, that they declared they are prepared ultimately to put the free books into operation should all other means fail
 The Grand avenue merchants fur ther contend that the entire system of routing of trolley cars here IS "village system" and has been SO styled by one of the members of the Public Utilities Commission. They say that by routing cars from the western and northwestern sections of the city down York street, through Chapel, and up State to Grand avenue occasions loss ot nearly IS minutes, which could be easily eliminated by routing the cars through Elm street,
 The delay works a great loss to them, they declare, by making the trip slow and troublesome for those of their customers who reside m the western part of the city. The petition follows:
 The Grand Avenue Business Mems Association in meeting assembled mously to have the following reso1u- ton delivered to the proper author ities of the Connecticut Trolley com pany:
 "Whereas, the trolley cars running through Grand avenue connecting the eastern section of our city with the west and northwest sections are now directed south two blocks on State street and York street off their main line in order to go through Chapel street, for few blocks, and,
 "Whereas, the running of trolley cars in such a manner causes an un necessary expense and a gross waste of time to the civic community and the Connecticut company, as well, in so much that this indirect route HO cover than 1t takes to go the whole length of the line in a direct way, and
 Whereas, this indirect route ac- commodates the people on an aver age of only one block, and
 "Whereas, the disadvantages are so numerous compared with the one block accommodation. DisadVanta- ages such as the punching of cars on Chapel street, the wasting of the peoples time who do not want to go through Chapel street. The de- moralization of the schedule on the rest of the route by the punching of cars on Chapel street. The necessity of using a greater number of cars and adding to the overhead of the trolley company, that we all have to pay for eventually. The addition to the congestion O1 Nndpel street, that has now become menace to life and limb ,and
 "Whereas, this compelling the whole population of New Haven to go through Chapel street, before they can start on direct route to any other part of our city-and stopping the growth of our business center.
 "Thereforc be it resolved, that the Grand Avenue Business Mems and Property Owners Association in meeting assembled Sept 27, 1921, present this resolution to the Con necticut Trolley company as we'll as a copy to the public press petitioning the Connecticut Co. to run it's cars in a direct route through Elm street into Grand avenue and return.