Identifier: streetrailwayjo181901newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ement arc at the down-town terminals of the busy lines, which are not providedwith loops, and at the intersections of busy north and southwith east and west lines. South Ferry is the terminal ofthe Eighth Avenue, Sixth Avenue and Broadway lines,and it is here that the greatest terminal congestion occurs. Table XI. gives the busiest Manhattan surface in-tersections. The maximum number of cars passing a givenintersection in one hour is at Sixth Avenue, Broadway andThirtv-Fourth Street, vvith 1070 cars. The intersection ofFourth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street, while there arefewer cars, is more troublesome, however, because thenumber of cars is more evenly divided between the northand south and east and west lines. The Columbus Circlecrossing at Eighth Avenue and Fifty-Ninth Street, andthat at Twenty-Third Street and Broadway are also busypoints. It is really the capacity for passing carsat these intersecting points which principally de-termines the capacity of the north and south lines.
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VIEW AT THE CORNER OF BROADWAY AND PARK ROW, THE SOUTHERN TERMINUS OF THE FOURTH AND THIRD AVENUE LINES 386 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIIL No. 14. The management states, however, that owing tospecial experience which has been obtained by the car op-erators in passing cars,a reduction of tlie headway has been Table XI. Busiest Surface Track Intersections. Headway Car Movementin BusiestHour,Sept. 9, 1901 Fourth Avenue and 23D Street^ Manh.\ttan. Seconds Cars (Two Tracks Crossing Two Tracks.) Fourth Avenue, Northbound 2427 15135 Total .\orlh and South Bound 285 2^d Street, Eastbound (including Lexington Ave. Cars) 17 210 23d Street, Westbound (including Lexington Ave. iS 200 Total East and West Bound 410 Grand total at Tntersertinn 695 Broadway, Sixth Avenue and 34TH Street, Manhattan.(Four Tracks Crossing Two Tracks, Triangular Crossing.) Broadway, Northbound Broadway, Southbound... .Sixth Avenue, Northbound.Sixth Avenue, Southbound. Total North and South Bound in Four Tracks. 24th

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