New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-15
B. R. T. Begins
Work To-day ON
Better Service
One Hundred New Trains
Will Be Added Through
out System; $50 Wooden
Cars TO Come OF at Once
Jams To Be Eliminated
Federal Judge Mayer and Re-
ceiver Cooperate With
the Transit Commission

Tbs Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany will begin preparations to carry
out the order issued yesterday ny the
Transit Commission for improved serv-
ice on its system.
The order directs the operation of an
additional 100 trains, the removal of
the old wooden cars from the Center
Street loop and the purchase of fifty
new steel cars. The order, as drafted
the cooperation of Judge Julius NJ.
Mayer, of the Federal Court, and Re-
ceiver Lindley NJ Garrison, and will
be accepted by the company.
Sixty of the additional trains are to
be supplied during rush hours and
forty during non-rush hours. In the
fall q further addition of thirty-hve
hours all the lines are required to pro-
vide the equivalent of a scat for every
passenger. The order goes into effect
on August 15.
For the next few months, pending
the receipt OF the fifty new cars, the
company will be permitted to operate
100 metal-sheathed cars, in addition to
the available all-steel cars, in the Cen
ter Street loop. All of the two hundred
on this line will be eliminated imme-
diately.
Care for Excursionists
In preparing it's order the commits
sion took cognizance of certain facts
waterway differentiating the situation
OF the Z. r. T. lines from those of
the lnterborough. An order for i'm
proved service on the 1nterborough
lines was issued month ago. The
operation Of rapid transit lines by the
b. K. 7. is more complicated, because
in many cases two or more lines
operate particular tracks in common
over part of the routes and then divert
IN order to cover widely separated
portions of the city.
The ratio of traffic carried during
the middle of the day as compared with
the traffic Of the rush hours, further
more, is low as compared with that of
the other company, for the reason that
30 many passengers living in Brooklyn
work in the Borough of Manhattan
The midday riding of these passengers,
therefore, takes place in Manhattan
instead of over the lines Of the Brook
Ign company. with the result that the
longer midday Roadway is reasonable
in Brooklyn where it would not be
permissible in Manhattan.
The commission has had under con-
sideration further specific order COW
ering Saturday and Sunday service 1t
mas laid down a general standard of
service for excursion riding which it
will undertake to supervise closely.
New Schedule Planned
The Roadway between trains under
the new order will be effected as fol-
lows:
On the local tracks of the Broadway
Fourth Avenue subway there are now
three lines operating, giving a COM
btned interval of two and one-half
minutes between trains in service
from Whitehall Street to Fifty-seventh
Street, Manhattan. The extension of
this service to Prospect Park, Brook
Ign, which the order requires, will for
the first time also give two and one
half minute interval between Manhat-
tan and the business section of
Brooklyn.
The West End and Sea Beach line,
operating by way of the Manhattan
Bridge on the express tracks Of the
Broadway Avenue subway, will
reduce the time between trains from
seven and one-half minutes to six min
utes up to 1890 a. m, and after 3 p.
m. from Times Square. In the fall the
six-minute interval will be required
throughout the middle of the day and
throughout the evening.
The lines serving the Eastern Dis
trict, or those operated via the Broad
way elevated tracks, are limited by
the number Of trains that can be oper-
ated over the single rail on the Will
liamsburg Bridge and the tracks of
the Center Street loop. The present
number Of trains scheduled through
Is forty-two during the maximum
morning rush hours and forty-eight
during the maximum evening rush
hours.
All Day Express Service
70 Is the intention Of the commits
sion to establish an all-day express
service on the Broadway elevated line
via the third track. While the order
\ does not require this at the present
time, the railroad company under
y stands that this service must be in
sugurated in the near future. The or
der requires the immediate extension
Of the present express service from
Jamaica, past Broadway and Myrtle
Avenue to Chambers Street, up to 10
o'clock in the morning, and from Cham
bers Street to Jamaica after 8 o'clock
IN the afternoon. Additional express
service from Rockaway Parkway on
the Canarsie line will also be oper-
ated via the third track on Broadway,
Brooklyn.
The lines serving the southern por-
ton of Brooklyn and those operating
between Flatbush, Fourth Avenue and
DeKalb Avenue stations are limited by
the total number of trains that can be
operated through the Montague Street
tunnel and over the Manhattan Bridge.
The proposed order specifies increases
with the provision that maximum loads
to be carried be limited to 200 per cent
on steel cars--that is, double the seat
Ing capacity-and $50 per cent on the
sheathed cars.
When the Fourteenth Street-Eastern
line is completed and in operation the
entire service will be changed radi-
eslly. A large part Of the Center
Street loop traffic will be diverted to
Fourteenth Street and Canal Street
will be restored to its nroner function