Show ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES REMOVAL DI o 1 TRACKS AND INSTAllATION OF MOTOR BUSS JJ I European and American l a Cities Citie Do Not Allow 1 Car Tracks on Best Streets At a recent meeting of or tho the board of or directors or of tho the Broadway Association of New York City it was decided to raise a special fund 0 of to be expended in an effort cHort to s secure curo the re removal removal re- re moval moal of ot street car tracks from Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way and the tho installation of a no motor motorbus motorbus bus system stem This action was as taken talen following tho the report of ot tho the transportation committee I which on a referendum submitted to the associations association's members found that SO 80 per cent favored the removal of oC tho the street car car cartr tr tracks cl s and tho the substitution substitution substitution of oC a a. modern bus system It was I announced that special counsel had been e to conduct such uch le legal al and legislative ve procedure as is necessary an and ami d also that a n special special special cial force bo be employed to collect and prepare data and Information to assist the transportation committee In conducting conducting con con- ducting the tho campaign n. At present the tho surface transportation tion service on Broadway Is conducted by two traction lines which charge separate fares and do not issue Interchangeable interchangeable inter Inter- changeable transfers Ono One lino Uno runs run from the tho lower end of ot tho the city through tho the financial and retail store section to the tho theatrical district while the theOther theOther Other runs from the tho theatrical district through part of ot the tho residential dis dis- Tho rho double faro and Inconvenience I enco ence of ot changing cars when going from ono one of or these districts to another I have been tho the causes for tor many com com- plaints Two even moro more serious com complaints cop coin plaints ire are the congestion In vehicular traffic and tho the absence of tho the logical motor traffic Street cars stop to take tako on and let off passengers at nearly every corner and frequently between street corners Passengers must pass across tho the space reserved for tor vehicular traffic In order to reach rench tho the sidewalk The law requires all vehicular lr traffic In the lower loner section of ot this street to stop when a car stops until the passengers passengers passengers pas pas- get on or off ott and tho the car ro- ro Its headway I Broadway in its narrower districts Is 34 1 feet wide Tho The street stroet car lines occupy 17 feet of or this space measured from the extreme extremo outside e of ot car cars i While Broadway II is tho the only street I Ion on Manhattan island running from its lower end to I a distance of about twenty miles and therefore the tho logical through highway for automobile automobile automo automo- bile bilo traffic hatle It Is not so used because of or the tho c congestion caused by the street streetcars streetcars streetcars cars and tracks Motor traffic ha has therefore been using Fifth Firth avenue with tho the result that that street stroet has hasto hasto hasto to carry a traffic greater than any other in the tho world If It conditions on Broa Broadway way C can ln be bo improved as desired much of ot the tho traffic now on Fifth Filth avenue avenue avenue ave ave- nue will b be diverted to Broadway and traffic conditions on both st str sti greatly improved In a statement Issued b by the tho m mIng ma maIng tria Ing InS director of tho the Broadway asso tion he says Nearly early all aU cities clUes h In United States Stales and on tho the continent fuse fuso to allow street car crr tracks t to laid on their finest streets l The modern motor bus as U nse J European cities and in some Amerl cities accommodate under cover 3 sl passengers and can be operated on Broadway It Is mobile than the street car beca i is not confined to rails an and stops the curb an and while it prevents m m accidents by allowing tho the passenger alight directly on the tho sidewalk Iti would permit all other 1 tic fie to move uninterruptedly in lanes now provided for It In c cas casa a 3 breakdown the bus can be bo moved move a side street instead of or blocking j entire line as the tho street cars now information Is that 4 line Une can profitably be bo operated on entire length of or Broadway on M bM hattan for a no single far tar if fa i Included among those In favor 4 motor bu bus line for Broadway are arc Una Cigar Stores Chatham bank Gimbel Bros J Life Insurance com company pan Gas company compan Hotel Imperial A h Rubber company compan National Cash R ter company and Park 21 list gives only a a. few of ot tho the nations nation known concerns engaged in differ lines of trade that advocate the p JI posed change S l 3 |