Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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o speak briefly, from purelj an operating standpoint..i some i these distinguishing characteristics. In the tir-t place tin- general lay-out of the lines and partiithe number ami length of interurban lines present a situation believed to be unparalleled in the l nited States, (here are sevendistinct interurban lines coming into the city, varying in length from directly to the luart i the business district, where a temporarywaiting room ia established on lower Woodward Avenue. The management has made a scry close study of the transfer conditions and in many instances lias combined short lines in order to do away with transfer points in th of the city; thus leaving in existence only the short lint i take care of i it and depol travel. are lines operated under a 5 cent fare with eight-for-a-quarter tickets good in the morning between the hours of 5:30 and7:00, and in the evening between the hours ■ •( 5:1s and r. 15. calledworkingmens tickets. There are also a certain number of miles
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MAI <iK INTERURBAN ELECTRIC RAILWAYS ABOUT DETROIT.All lines controlled bj Detroit United R&tlwaj except the Detroit, Ypellantl, Ann Arbor .v Jackson; tii<- Detroit, Plj mouth A Northern, 1 an.I N-.niiviii.-. and the lines in ..1 Toledo. short spur connecting Wayne 20 to 79 miles, and. with one exception, all under tin control ofthe Detroit United Railway, The topography of the city admits ofbetter than the average speed in cities the size of Detroit; theschedule speed for the city lines being 10.117 miles per hour. The headway on the heavy lines is 30 seconds at 6 oclock atnight, and on the crosstown and main north and south lines thisheadway is maintained during the rush hours. To insure thisschedule timers are placed at different points in the city and thecars on all lines are timed. Under normal conditions all lines are d to have an average of at least 85 per cent of cars on time. lists from each line are checked with the schedules on thefollowing day. and their percenta

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