The New York herald., 1921-09-15
$45, 900, 900 A YEAR PAID
IN TRANSFERS, SAYS EXPERT

four main surface arteries running gen.
orally from the Battery to the Harlem
River. To-day there is one--the Lex
ington and Lenox avenue, which runs on
broadway south Of Twenty-third street.
Free transfers are available on that
route at the 116th street crosstown only.
virtually the entire West Side was cut
of by the dropping Of the Ninth avenue
line and compelled to buy transfers.
while the discontinuance Of through
crosstown service in lower Manhattan
compelled virtually the entire congested
lower East Side to pay a ten cent fare.
The story OF the Third Avenue Rail-
way Company. with its thirty-six free
transfer points cut to twenty-one, and
the Union, with twenty-five points
chopped Off its 154, is much the same.
blight Also Falls ON The Bronx.
The Bronx has come under consider
able Of the same blight as Manhattan
and Brooklyn in the discontinuance of
the eight cent fare and transfer tickets
at five Bronx points Of intersection OF
the Interborough Rapid Transit lines
and the surface lines Of the New York
City Interborough. The same privileges
in Manhattan have been cancelled.
The foregoing are the only transfers
cancelled so far by the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company. That company
now has but one free transfer point,
which Is the intersection Of the subway
and elevated lines at 149th street in The
Bronx. There has been 4 great deal OF
talk regarding the probability OF an
abrogation OF the Interborough's lease
upon the elevated lines In event the
pending receivcrship petitions against
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garded generally that receivership. un-
less the Transit Commissions forthcom-
ing plan for reorganization Of all tran
sit systems interviewed. likely would re-
suit In an effort to abrogatc that lease.
To divorce the Interborough and the
elevated not only would relieve the In
terborough OF the burdensome terms OF
the IL" contract, but 1t Is thought would
result In the elimination of the free
transfer point at 149th street. That
would mean that 100000 passengers
a year who now avail themselves OF use
Of the free transfers would have to pay
whatever extra charge might be fixed or
find some other means OF getting to and
from work without using both subway
and IL" lines. 1t would mean that the
subway would draw upon 100000 OF
the transfer users for an additional fare
and that the elevated line would draw
upon the remaining 100000.
Queens and Richmond. wniie greatly
inconvenienced both as to transportation
facilities and rates of fare at various Pc
riods In the last two years, have not
suffered from permanent wholesale
elimination OF transfer points.
The Borough OF Queens has gained
eight transfer points by the rerouting
of the College Point and Flushing lines
tc Alburtis avenue. Corona, and now
f,as forty-seven points. as against her
former thirty-nine.
Richmond. too. has gained, and for
that may thank the Hylan administra-
tlon The lines Of the Richmond Light and
Railroad Company including the Staten
Island Midland lines, formerly main
tanned nine free transfer points, five OF
which have been eliminated. The city.
however. having taken over the Staten
Island Midland lines for municipal oper-
alton. established ten new free transfer
points. thus giving Staten Islanders a
net gain OF six free transfer points.