Report Of The Rapid Transit Commission To The Massachusetts Legislature

Author : Matthew Chauncey Brush
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260094636
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book Statement of M. C. Brush, President of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, Before the Street Railway Investigation Commission of the Massachusetts Legislature September 6, 1917 written by Matthew Chauncey Brush and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Statement of M. C. Brush, President of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, Before the Street Railway Investigation Commission of the Massachusetts Legislature September 6, 1917: Satisfactory Service and Sound Securities The Commonwealth has had many commissions for several years past on all details of the question of street railroading. As an indication of how efi'ort has been made by the use of commissions to meet in some specific cases the transporta tion problem, under the provisions of Chap. 108, Resolves of 1913, providing for the investigation of the street rail way service furnished by the Boston Elevated Railway Company and the Bay State Street Railway Company in the metropolitan district, a joint report was made by the Public Service Commission and the Boston Transit Com mission, and in the last part of the report it states: The Joint Commission therefore respectfully recommends that to some public authority be committed a thorough and fundamental consideration of the whole metropolitan transportation problem. The next year Chap. 149 of the Resolves of 1914 called for a continuation of the report asked for by the Resolves of 1913, and the Public Service Commission reported, and in the last paragraph of that report stated: The special duty of considering these rapid transit plans can be delegated to some other public body, such as the Boston Transit Commission. Then in 1916 in the Resolves of that year, Chap. 158, provision was made for a special commission to consider the financial condition of the Boston Elevated Railway Company reporting in Senate 344, the ninth recommendation of which read: The Commission recom mends that the Public Service Commission be directed to make a thorough investigation of the affairs of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, and that investigation is now being carried on. Further, the Commonwealth has had a Public Service Commission or its predecessor, the Railroad Commission, since 1869, or for forty-eight years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.