The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-22
Seven Cent
 are May Be
 riied Next

According to Hartford reports to- day the life of the five cent fare Tn Bridgeport may be snuffed out long before the 90 day trial has run it's course The latest talk Is that the commission at the informal hearing today may consider strongly the ad- visibility of a fiat seven cent fare, with old fare limits and transfer pr1V1- leges. This was only one of many rumors of a solution to the state wide dissatisfaction, that has caused the commission and the trolley company, with innumerab1e suggestions from civic bodies, to try and reach an an- swer to the problem that could be applied all over the State; that the Connecticut company might satisfy the public, make a profit, and still keep the trolley organization in the form of one unit, with one head quarters office, and that in New Ha- ven.
 That a flat fare of seven cents with old conditions might please more of the people of the State than the pres ent tangled plan, deemed by many unfair, is the belief expressed in many quarters. It is pointed out that largely because of the trolley company itself, whole communities, schools. churches factories and small business centers have come into being, based upon fare limits that have held for years. It was the abandonment of these fare limits that made the zone system so unpopular, and the present Bridgeport
 
 into modified zone system.
 It will be impossible with the pres ent method of fare collecting for the trolley company to utilize the large Derby, New Haven, Milford. Fairfield Or Norwak runs in the summer, the very lines on which the cars of large carrying capacity are most needed in the warmer months. Neither can these cars be used successfully on the Barnum avenue-State street line, North Bridgeport-South Main street line, or on any extra rush hour run that crosses the center of the city, for the same reason.
 Other lines on which the double truck. steel cars, are being used to- day as one-man cars are the Ash Creek and Stratford center runs. This leaves the only lines out of the Bridgeport barns with full crews the Paradise Green, Derby, Fairfield and NorwaIk lines. On all other large cars appeared today signs reading, Enter the front door,"
 Awaiting action of the informal meeting of the Public Utilities Con- mission to be held in Hartford at 9,eloek 9 this afternoon: supt J. B. Connecticut company stated this mrning that there was nothing the local officials could do but to bend every effort toward perfecting the present system. that will go through a 9O-day trial period, as instituted Sunday, unless further orders or notifications are received from the state commission.
 Potter said that he had absolutely no figures to give to the public that such statements would have to be received from the commission, to whom the trolley company .now has to furnish full reports regarding rev enue and operating expenses. How ever, like Chairman R. T. Higgins of the commission, he is rather inclined to the belief that Stratford and Fair field 10 cent customers of the Fair field and Stratford lines will be given transfer entithng them to a ride to the end of any city line. Potter stated also that he believed that Stratford had been "ovexqooked" by the commission in it's decision, which was the cause of the tangle, rather than a misinterpretation of the de- cision by the Connecticut company.