The New York herald., 1922-06-11
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FOR A1O Cent? FARE
Recapture Would Divorce
4th Avenue Subway From
All B. r. I. Lines.
MOVE SEEN AS POLITICS
Turner Indicates Transit
Boards Scheme for De-
veloping Bus Routes.
GOOD FOR SHORT HAULS
Scarcity Of Streets Running
North and South Makes
Difficult Problem.
GOOD FOR SHORT HAULs

Persons familiar with the New Yorl
transit situation refuse to take seri
ously Mayor Hylan's Friday threat t.
take over by recapture the Brooklyn
Fourth, avenue subway system To-
operation. They assume hi
purpose is political rather than prac
tical for these reasons:
1t is hardly supposed that the
Mayor, who delights TO be hailed as
the savior of the five cent fare.
would willingly become the cham
pion Of an enterprise which would
mean dual or treble fare for
much of the traffic between Man
haitian and Brooklyn and virtually
all the traffic between Manhattan,
with the exception of the lower East
Side, and Coney Island
The recapture of the Fourth ave-
nue. system. including the B. r.
T. Broadway (Manhattan) subway.
would mean it's instant divorce from
all the old elevated lines of the
B. r. r. 1t would cost ten cents
for all passengers now using the
elevated lines in connection with
the newer tubes for single fare.
With the exception of the Broad
way (Manhattan) subway of the B.
r. T. traffic for single fare would
be limited to persons taking such of
the Brooklyn trains as enter lower
Manhattan by one of the loops at
the southern end of the island. OF
the four rapid transit lines running
too Coney Island the Culver route
q. 4. .<.I& H.. stxr
are transported by the Brighton.
These would continue to be operated
by the b. r.. T., which would re-
vert to the ten cent fare tariff to
and from Coney Island.
The present exchange of passen-.
gers which permits a ride from
virtually any point in Brooklyn
reached by its IL" or surface sys-
TENS to any point in Manhattan
along the Broadway B. r. T. lines
all the way up to Greensboro Bridge
plaza would cease and an additional
fare would be charged.
Splitting the System. = =
New York's rapid transit system
would be split up into three parts
operated by the city. the B. r. 7.
and the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company. which has no line
Coney Island. Mr.. Hylan. they add.
appears to have ignored the pertinent
fact also that under the statutes and
the contracts between the city and
the operating companies it is possible
for the city to recapture a subway
line only through the agency of the
Transit Commission.
AS the Transit Commission alre1d
has in state well advanced towar
consummation its plan for the reorgar
ization and unification under singl
management of all the railway lines {
the city, and as that plan contemplate
single fare ride from any point In III
city to any other point-includin
Coney Island-it is easy to see that tn
necessary cooperation of the Trans
Commission and it's agency in bringin
about at the Mayors behest a conditio
so reactionary is a most remote cor
tingency..
Turner Has Bus scheme.
How may the motor bus be utilized I
best advantage in the general transi
scheme of New York?
Though the Transit Commission ha
not yet made public its opinions on thi
subject Daniel L. Turner. it's consultin
engineer, defined his views In a pape
read before the National Automobil
Chamber Of Commerce. He specific
four possible ways in which the bus ma
be usefully employed. in each instanc
supplerlenting rather than supersedin
the existing service.
First" said Mr.. Turner, "buses ma
be used to furnish a special route serict
I am not now referring to, sightseein
buses, excursion buses or any type o
incidental special service, I mean al
everyday service OF special characte
for regular customers. Regular througl
route special service workward in tn
and homeward at night can b
furnished for segregated groups OF pa
irons.
Second, New York needs more cross
town or circumferential routes in orde
to better articulate the traffic carrie'
on the workward and homeward lines
Crosstownt routes are relatively short
This is particularly so In Manhattan
Such a service. where possible withol
conflicting with the prior or controllip
franchise rights of the surface lines. cfl
be furnished better by buses than Il
any other way.
Third buses can be used to some ex
tent to accommodate the short hau
traffic in the congested centers in tn
place OF the surface car lines. Thi
would not mean a general elimination
of the surface cars and a substitution
of buses, but the use of buses in tn
place of cars only when and where OK
cessive vehicular congestion requires Il
Fourth. and the most Important n
all the uses mentioned. the bus should b