Stations of Subway are Now Opened

STATIONS OF SUBWAY ARE NOW OPENED TRAINS STOP AT FORTY-FIFTH AND FIFTY THIRD STREETS. Subway Operation a Keen Disap. pointment to the Residents and Taxpayers of the Bay Ridge SectionService on Elevated in. Non-Rush The Fourth avenue subway is opened! Trains now stop at all stations from Fifty-ninth street to the Centre street loop. The stations at- Forty-fifth street were opened on Sunday morning at 8:50 and the residents of that thickly populated section may now use the subway without walking long dis: tances. The long-suffering taxpayers and residents of the section who have been compelled to put up with inadequate transit facilities for SO many years and for so many months since the great improvement that was heralded with such delight on June -19, when a portion of the subway was opened for traffic, have at last come into their own- and may with reason: expect to have decent and comfortable conditions in the cars of the B. R. T. In our last issue announcement was of the failure of the Public Service Commission to act on the request of the B. R. T. to give permission for the opening of the two staLions at meeting on Tuesday. The request was again taken up, however, at Friday's meeting and the authorizaLon made, with result that the stations were opened on Sunday, thee as above. There is still work for the civic organizations of the section, however, in this matter of transit facilities. The fact that there is now no reason why the B. R. T. should not give ample train service to handle the entire traveling public of Bay Ridge is too patent for discussion. That the railroad people are not giving that service even with these ample facilities is also patent and so well known to the people of the section, as well as the railroad people, that there is no: the slightest room for question. On Sunday, for example, within few hours of the time. when the subway was opened fullest sense (at 7:30 in the evening, to be exact) there was naught but standing room on a two-car train of the elevated line and of course standing room only the subway trains by reason of the, Coney Island traffic. No reasonable man expects that during the rush

Article from 22 Sep 1915Home Talk the Item(Brooklyn, NY)

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