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TO DISCONTINUE K LADD DIVISIONPERMIT GRANTED TO TEAR UP RAILS BY THE STATE COMMERCE COMMISSIONA permit for the discontinuance of iuterurhan service on the Ladd branch it the Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria By. was issued by the Illinois Commerce commission Tuesday as the concluding chapter of a bitter fight which Jia9 extended over many years. In conjunction with the permit for discontinuance of interurban service permission was given tor the operation of a cnRor bus line in its place.The interurban railway has long sought authority to tear up its tracks between Hicks Junction and the north side village, claiming that the division was a financial failure.The following Associated Press dispatch from Springfield told of the action of the commerce commission:A new policy on the part of the ,-»t ate toward interurban liues was revealed in an order by the Illinois Commerce Commission granting an interur-ban railway authority to tear up it* tracks and to institute motor.bus service as a substitute for the electric iu-terurban. The order was issued to the Illinois fraction Co., giving the company the right to discontinue about ,‘1*4 miles of its track between Hicks Junction at Spring Valley and the village of Ladd, in Bureau county.The permission to discontinue the ia-terurbau line at this point is contingent on the operation by the same company of an adequate motor bus service between Spring Valley Ladd. The company had previously applied for a certificate of convenience and necessity to operate motor bus lines from Utica in; Peru and La Salle to Starved Rock, but had withdrawn the. request for all except the l^add line. 1 he Illinois Traction Co., Inc., operates through the counties of La Salle, Bureau, Grundy and Will to the city of Joliet, and has branches to Ladd and Streator. The petition set forth that the company lost $1,000 a year on the % miles *u track affected.
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Spring Valley Gazette
Spring Valley, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 09, 1923
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