Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-05-09
.REROUT|NG Of CARS
ON MANY CITY LINES
Changes to be Made to Avoid
Congestion Upon Compile
tion Of Street Work.


OF the trolley cars OF the Wilmington
and Philadelphia Traction Co.. and
the location of some OF their terminals
are to be made in order to avoid traf-
fic congestion on several OF the streets
on which now paving is now being
done or Will be done during the sum-
mer and where II IL expected such
highways will be used much more ex-
tensively than now. Resolutions set
ting forth these changes and granting
permission TO make them were given
two readings by tho directors OF the
Street and Sewer Department mt their
meeting this morning and laid over
for consideration but It is understood
they will all be finally approved for
tho directors expressed themselves as
much pleased with the new arrange
ments as laid out.
Claud Bryan, an official OF the trac-
tion company, appeared before the
board with blue prints showing just
what It is planned TO do. In the first
place there win be no moro parking
of the trolley cars In Fourth street
just east of Market where the New
Castle line. Lobdell cars and East
Fourth street cars now stand. This is
TO be abolished because after East
Fourth street has been paved Il is
beloved traffic on that thoroughfare
Will be much heavier than it Is at pres
ent.
The traction company seeks permis-
sion to install a double track cross
over at Fourth and Market streets so
the East Fourth street cars may cross
Market and continue out West Fourth
The New Castle cars will cover this
new route instead of having the
terminal Mt the corner Whether they
will be run all the way TO Fourth and
Union or Just to Fourth and Monroe
has not been decided. The Lobdell cars
and the South Harrison street car,
will be Joined in one route and neithe,
will stand In east or I'm west Fourth
street but will simply stop TO take ~
or discharge passengers and then con.
tinue on their way, the exact lines Z,
be traversed to be determined later
on.
The Rising Sun cars will continu,
to run in Seventh. as at present. bu
at Lombard street they will turn nortl
to Thirteenth and then to King, e
Ninth, to Market to Sixth and thef
out on Sixth street as Mt present. Thil
will necessitate the installation of {
switch and curve at Ninth and Kinl
streets and another at Sixth and Mar
lSet streets. There will be no trolle,
tracks on King street south OF Ninth
: The street directors today decided {,
, communicate with. the traction com
| pany and request them TO remove tn
switch now In Sixth street betweel
{ Market and Orange and to straightei
> the line between these two points a
> the same time the curve Ia put il
Z around Sixth and Market streets. 4
= new cross over viii also be put in a
= Sixth and Market streets.
The Brandywine Springs cars Wi
r run in Seventh as now, but they Wi
= turn down Spruce to Fourth and the
, along Fourth TO the Wilson Line boo
n wharf. They will return by the sam
3 route which viii be double trac
line to Seventh street then to Popla
and TO Sixth and out TO the Spring
, along the same route as In now fol
. lowed. This will hesitate a doubl
curve and switch at Fourth and Spruc
=, streets and at Seventh and Spruc
streets. The terminal Mt Church stree
and the Pennsylvania railroad will l.
abandoned for the present at least an
the cars VIII not stand there any NOR,
I. When these changes become etfec
: tive there Will be no trolley cars stand
ing anywhere in the congested sec
y tions OF the city or where traffic
unusually heavy. All lines will be ker
moving and at the boat wharf patron
VIII be able 10 board the Springs car
l right there instead of having 10 wal
more than a block as at present. Th
- street directors today expressed III
n opinion that these changes shoul
d prove very satisfactory and benefici,
/. to all concerned and they voiced the.
{ individual approval Of all of them.