President Fairfax Harrison went to Charlotte and told the people they were not going to have any new depot. The chief executive of the Southern Railway Company declared Charlotte had no need for a new station and that the Southern was not even contemplating the erection of one there.
President Harrison declared jitneys and buses are taking much local traffic from Charlotte, as from other cities, and that the present station is good enough to care for all the traffic. Business in Charlotte will have to increase to a marked degree before the Southern will even think about a new station for the city.
This matter of buses and jitneys is going to keep lots of towns and cities from getting new stations. A ride on any local train will prove the truth of President Harrison’s statement that the auto is getting the cream of local traffic. And with so much business going to the auto, the railroads are not going to put out money for stations except in such cases as Greensboro and Winston-Salem, where the present buildings do not begin to care for patrons of the system.
From the editorial page of The Concord Times, Monday, December 1, 1924. J.B. Sherrill, Editor and Publisher; W.M. Sherrill, Associate Editor. Jitneys are taxis.
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