The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-07
CAR COMPANY
CUTS Time IN
Rail SERVICE
New Schedules Slice Five
Minutes From Average
Trips.
ISSUE RUNNING CHARTS
Further Speeding-Up De-
ponds on Boarding, Leav-
ing of Patrons.

How long should it take hubby
to get home after he phones from
the Office that he is coming right
out on one of the Indianapolis Street
Railway Companys yellow taxis"?
An average of five minutes less
these days than a short time ago,
according to street railway officials.
indianapolis street cars now are
operating at speeds comparable with
average speed of any system in the
United States and at considerably
faster speed then ever attempted
here, they say.
Most of the city's car lines are
operating under new schedules.
Some shorten running time between
terminals as much as ten minutes,
and faster schedules soon are to be
in effect on other lines, it is an
nounced.
Prepare Time Charts
To help the wife know just how
long it should take hubby to get
home, they have prepared a sched-
ule showing minimum and maxi
mum running times between
terminals on the various lines. 1t
follows:
Observation-Disclosures Thirtieth st.
and Sherman DR.. and Meridian and
Georgia Sts., 26 to 80 minutes.
College-Twenty Seventh st. to
Washington and Pennsylvania Sts.,
II to 10 minutes.
Shelby-Perry st. to Meridian and
Georgia, % to Is minutes.
West indianapolis st. TO
Illinois and Washington Sts., 10 to
20 minutes.
East Michigan-Emerson Ave. to
Meridian and Maryland Sts., 10 to
% minutes.
Notwithstanding Fourth and
Clifton SITS. to Union Station, 26 to
30; Illinois and Washington SITS. to
Thirty Fourth ST., 81 to Is minutes.
Central-Illinois and Washington
to Thirty Fourth ST., Is to % min
utes; to Forty-Sixth st. and College
Ave-, "a to % minutes; to Me-
ridian Heights, 9to 33 minutes; to
Broad Ripple, IS to SO minutes.
English-Meridian and Georgia to
keystone Ave, is to 10 minutes.
Pennsylvania Meridian and Geor-
gia to Twenty Second ST., 10 to 20
minutes.
Prospect--Meridian and Georgia
to keystone Ave, IS to 10 minutes.
Illinois-Union Station to Thirty
Fourth ST., 81 to "a minutes; to Ma
pleton, "a to 81 minutes; to State
Playground, 80 to 33 minutes; to
Fairview, SO to SO minutes.
South Meridian = Meridian e16
Washington to Hoefgen ST., 16 to 20
minutes.
Garfield Meridian and Washing
ton to Garfield Park, II to 10 min
utes.
Use New SubstationS
The faster schedules, according to
James P. Tretton, railway superin-
tendent, is made possible by putting
into service three of the five new
subStations built to provide the car
company with additional power.
Stations at ST. Clair st. and the
Canal, and on mccarthy st. are in
full operation, and the station at
the Highland Ave. barns in part
operation, taking power from high
tension linesTof the Central Indiana
Power Company.
Further speeding up of cars will
depend largely on the manner in
which patrons board and leave the
cars" said Tretton.
1--WE are acting on the theory that
the people of Indianapolis wish to
be transported as rapidly as they
may be safely hauled. Cooperation
in making the stops as short as
possible will result in still further
opportunity for reducing running
time"