. Electric railway journal . ally insolving the transportation problem forthe city. The ordinance resulting frommany conferences, introduced in theCouncil recently, provides for thesefeatures: 1. A $5,000 bond for each vehicle oper-ated. 2. Ijicense fees: $25 up to seven pas-sengers, $35 up to twelve passengers, and$50 above twelve passengers. ,S. A city jitney license inspector, wlioshall inspect jitneys once in three months. 4. Definite jitney routes, with a limitto the number of jitneys that may operateover each route. Operators may specifyfirst, second and third choices as to routes,but mu
. Electric railway journal . ally insolving the transportation problem forthe city. The ordinance resulting frommany conferences, introduced in theCouncil recently, provides for thesefeatures: 1. A $5,000 bond for each vehicle oper-ated. 2. Ijicense fees: $25 up to seven pas-sengers, $35 up to twelve passengers, and$50 above twelve passengers. ,S. A city jitney license inspector, wlioshall inspect jitneys once in three months. 4. Definite jitney routes, with a limitto the number of jitneys that may operateover each route. Operators may specifyfirst, second and third choices as to routes,but must operate wliere the license in-spector assigns them. 5. Any operator failing to cover the en-tire route, or deviating from the route, isliable to loss of his license. Fifteen routes are specified in theordinance, the limit of jitneys rangingfrom 50 to 100 on each route, a possibletotal of 1100 jitneys. Nearly all theroutes follow the lines of the KansasCity Railways, though in few casesreaching the terminals of such Kansas City Plans Safety Campaign. —Plans for a one-year safety-first cam-paign are being made by the KansasCity (Mo.) Safety Council. Activework, which will be under the auspicesof the local safety council, the TrafficSafety League, and the Chamber otCommerce, will begin on Sept. 1. Increase in Interurban Rates Allowed. —The Public Utilities Commission ofIllinois on July 22 authorized the EastSt. Louis & Suburban Railway to in-crease fares between East St. Louis andBelleville to 2 cents per mile. Theboard refused the companys applica-tion for a revised zoning system. Many Hurt in Head-on Collision.— More than 100 persons were injured,two of them perhaps fatally, when twocars of the Public Service Railway metin a head-on collision near Fort Lee,N. J., on July 27. The accident oc-curred on a lay-over switch in thesingle-track line that runs out of FortLee. Six-Cent Fare Protested.—Taxpayersof Wilmington, Del., protested at ahearing before the Board
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