The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-21
City Discusses Main Traffic
Way on Eighth Avenue.
To Remove Street Car Tracks
From This Avenue.
PLANNING BOARD FAVORS H
Would Make Wonderful Boule-
ward Says C. p. Adams.
Santa Fe May Locate Station
There in Near Future.

The possibility that Eighth avenue
may become boulevard or a main
traffic way doomed large with the
decision of the pubic utilities com
mission on Monday that street car
service be discontinued on that line,
and the resulting statement of Mayor
Herbert J. Corwine that the city COM
mission would order the street car
tracks removed from the avenue.
The city planning board is in favor
of making q boulevard of Eighth ave-
nue. in accordance with one of the
most important tentative projects of
the planning board, that of creating a
boulevard system for Topeka.
Favor a Boulevard.
'I am confident that the city plan
ming expert the board is to engage i'm
med1ately will favor making a boule-
ward of Eighth avenue" said Charles
r. Adams, vice president OF the board
today. Eighth avenue would make
wonderful boulevard as it is wide, is
centrally located and touches upon
some of the city's beauty spots. such
as the state house. Bethany college
Christ's hospital. and is one of the di-
rect routes to Gage park.
1t seems to me more fitting that
Eighth avenue should be a bouleyar rd
ratner than a traffic way Adams
sald, Sixth street is caring for much
OF the traffic going west, and the city
is badly in need of a better drive II
that direction.
"A move of the Santa Fe railroad
that may make Eighth avenue a still
more important thorofare may be the
location OF new railroad station
some time in the next few wears he.
tween Sixth and Eighth avenues
Adams pointed out. 'I understanf
that when the new Santa Fe station /.
to be built it will be farther soutf
than the present station and that a 10
ealon between Sixth and Eighth Il
favored by officials"
To Remove Street Car Tracks.
Mayor Corwine said today that tn,
/ city commission would ask the-stree
railway company to remove the stree
| car tracks from Eighth avenue I'm
| mediately, as abandonment of servici
on any line requires removal of tracks
according to the company's franchis,
with the city.
The West Eighth avenue street ca
line could only be continued at a loss
with burden that street car patrons
| OF other lines would have TO bear. in
the opinion of Clyde NJ. Reed, chair
man of the public utilities commits
sion, who wrote the opinion on tn,
| matter.
Service has not been given on tn
| west Eighth avenue line since las
August when the street railway com
pany secured permission of the cour
OF industrial relations to discontinu
service pending test of whether o
not the service was vitality needed
Residents of the West Eighth avenu
| district petitioned the city commission
and the utilities commission to restor
| service, but not sufficient need wa
| shown for the service, according t
the commissions opinion. Few cite
| have street car service at a parable
of every two blocks. such as had bee
furnished in Topeka with Fourth
Sixth, Eighth, Tenth. Twelfth an
Douthitt lines.
Service on Sixth and Tenth.
/ Since the Eighth avenue service wa
discontinued. additional service wa
| furnished on Sixth and Tenth avenue,
and it will be continued, street rail
| way officials have stated. Seven an
a half minute service is given>on Sixt
avenue and ten minute service o
Tenth avenue.
Service on the Clay street line fror
Tenth avenue to Thirteenth street wa
also ordered discontinued by the pGh
lie utilities commission.