(rshsdepot) "PSC Stalls LIRR Shuttle Scuttle"

["fred fep" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

In the following, what were, where were Newsday and A&P Bronze stations 
(and what did the last name mean) and why wasn't Salisbury mentioned? 
Why was the line called 40 years old?
- ---Paul

Nassau Review-Star, September 6, 1952

PSC Stall LIRR Shuttle Scuttle

Road Spokesman Points Out Loss on Line



  Attempts by the Long Island Railroad to scuttle the 5-cent shuttle 
service  on its branch between Country Life Press station in Garden City 
and Mitchel Field appears to have hit a snag.
  Appearing before the Public Service Commission yesterday railroad 
spokesmen tried to prove that the line lost $9,479 during the past six 
months.
  However, a PSC official testified that most of the people using the 
two-mile run depend on it for transportation to their jobs.
  Dropping the 40-year-old line would wipe out the Clinton Road, Newsday 
and A & P Bronze stations.
  Reporting ton a survey last month, Herbert M. Chevalier, PSC 
supervising transportation inspector, told Hearing Examiner Henry I. 
Cherey that the railroad even arranges shuttle schedules to meet trains 
on the main line arriving at Country Life Press.
  If the shuttle is discontinued, Chevalier said, passengers bound for 
Mitchel Field would either have to go to Hempstead, take a three mile 
walk, and hop a bus for 20 cents. Or else he said, they would have to 
get off at Country Life Press, walk six-tenths of a mile to Clinton 
Avenue and take a bus for 15 cents.
  Earlier, Sidney Kabalkin, PSC counsel, read the official tariffs filed 
with the commission by the LIRR to show that the railroad was required 
to sell tickets to Mitchel Field from any other point on its routes.
  William A. Colton, railroad attorney, denied that such tickets were 
sold. He maintained that Mitchel Field passengers buy a ticket to 
Country Life Press, then drop a nickel in the shuttle fare box to get to 
the field.
  Hearings were closed and Cherey said he would recommend action to the 
commission.




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