Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ready to face the situation. Existing conditions demand a remedy. Shall it be further attempts at regulation or municipal ownership? Three years ago, District-Attorney Jerome pledged himself to secure from these companies more efficient service, and although he was clothed with all the police powers of the city, he could accomplish almost nothing. All attempts at regulation have failed. The reason is manifest. Most of the franchises, owned by the street railway companies, are almost unconditional and practically perpetual. The only legal means by which the city can secure adequate control is to buy back the franchises. This means...
Experience and reason prove conclusively that municipal ownership would be beneficial. During the past 15 years, while we have been experiencing the futility of regulation, 51 British and 30 German cities have undertaken municipal ownership of street railways. In the great majority of cases the service has been made more efficient and more convenient. Municipal ownership is not new to New York, for the city has already successfully undertaken ownership of the subway roads...
...only reasonable that municipal ownership should be beneficial. Political wisdom argues for it. Transportation is a public utility, and it is a fundamental principle of political economy that public utilities should be administered for the public benefit...
...Hart then demanded of the affirmative that some urgent and overwhelming necessity for the change be shown in view of the enormity of the problem. He then outlined the purpose of the negative as being three-fold--to show that municipal ownership is unnecessary, must inevitably be unprofitable, and will be positively injurious to the city. Municipal ownership is unnecessary since what it claims to do can be better accomplished in another way. We admit that there are some evils in the street railway system in New York, but we maintain that those which can be removed...
...frequently as is practicable--a typical instance being the corner of Broadway and 23rd street, where cars pass at the rate of one every six seconds, while vehicles cross the tracks at the rate of 32 a minute. The speaker asked the affirmative to show how municipal ownership could improve a situation like this. He said that there is only one possible remedy, namely, relieving surface congestion by building new subways. Here again the expensive method of municipal ownership is unnecessary...