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or prospective Centers. are nowadays
built to accommodate large trolley cars.
The cost Of construction is 50 great
that II does not pay TO run small cars,
or 10 build and equip lin" with the
idea of running anything but big modern
steel trollcyS.
Under the circumstances. surface
lines. feeders for the FrankfOrd elevated,
with up-to- date equipment, cannot be
considered for somc years to come. The
traffic which belongs 70 the elevated
must therefore BE- provided for in some
other way.
MotorbuSses seem 70 be tho solution.
Notorious lines to run on schedule.
Municipal bus lines would be- the most
economical a. well as m" most flexible
method of conveyance in those sections
lacking surface trolley convenionces.
TraCkless trollcys are expensive.
/ They depend on transmitted power over
head. They cannot be operated on
roads and avenues which lack overhead
wires.
Motorbusses can be shifted whenever
occasion demands. They can be ar
ranged in routes TO suit the volume
OF traffic.
As 10 streets suitable for mUtorbu,
, traffic. the solution is easy,
1t is not a question Of streets, but o
| traffic With motOrhuSSrs going wher,
traffic demands, the character of III,
streets or thornughfar"S will be brough
! up TO conform to the vOum" of travel
! Co. operation Needed
The Department Of Highways and tn,
Department of Transit will have
work hand in hand in promoting sucl
plan.
! The only. cross town surface lin
above Allegheny avenue is the Orthodo
and Arrott streets line that runs arros
the Germantown.
With notorious lines feeding the "l"
waited. it would BE- a compare lively ~h
| time until the increase of population
il is estimated. would justify the con
struction of adequately equipped SurfuC
! lines 10 follow in the path marked on
| by the busses.
Mayor Moore talking on this phase q
the transit question said that Will
| the question doomed large in his cit
transit prospective he had not V
reached q point where he was ready I
discuss it. lie desired TO consult wit
! Director Twning and other city Off
ciaS.
There is still another angle TO thi
elevated question.
The prospect OF hauling Frankfor
a." traffic 10 Front and Arch street
and there turning it loose TO furnis
short haul riders for the phiIadClphi
Rapid Transit is not an ulIuriug ono
4 terminus Il dozen blocks westwar
would be NOR" desirable.
There still fingers the hop" Of che "l
proposition that by extending III
Frankford Il" down Arch to Eight
streets, down Eighth 70 SAMSON street
and then out SAMSON with IN dltimat
extension across the river ," Woodlan
avenue and down 10 DARBY So Chester
the problem would be solved.
This, however, is IA r"mprohensly
plan. It is the old metropolitan dis
trict plan.
There are those who visualize high
speed line. including the Frankford Il
with Woodland avenue extension, froE
Trenton 70 Chester.
This is of the future The immedat
question Is for rnriug for the traffic i
the northeast in such way that il wi
feed into the Erankford II" and
the course of few years hclp to thickl
populate th' district and increase II
revenue of the new elevated linz.