Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 23 March 1933 — CROWN POINT MAY LOSE STREET CARS [ARTICLE]

CROWN POINT MAY LOSE STREET CARS

PETITION TO SUBSTITUTE BUS SERVICE IS FILED. Crown Point faces the probability of having its street car service to Gary discontinued in the near future. The use of private automobiles and the depression have made the line between the county seat and Gary anything but a paying proposition the past year. A petition has been filed with the Public Service Commission by the managers of the Gary & Southern asking that permission be granted to substitute a bus service beween Crown Point and Forty-fifth Avenue Gary. Patrons of the line would be subjected to the inconvenience of transferring from the bus to the Gary street car line, with the probability of having to pay an additional fare. Established in 1911, at a time when transportation facilities between Gary and the county seat were meagre, the street car line has never been a paying proposition. It has changed hands several times and narrowly escaped being abandoned several years ago, when decreased revenues and the urgent need of improvements caused the owners much concern. It was finally taken under the Insul wing and since that time has operated continously.