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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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s notstrictly enforced. The traffic handled during the firstfew days of operation averaged from Birmingham Case Closed Commission Expected to Rule WithinThirty Days on Eight-CentFare Plea Hearings on the application of LeeC. Bradley, receiver for the BirminghamRailway, Light & Power Company, Bir-mingham, Ala., for an 8-cent fare witha 2-cent transfer charge and an appli-cation to keep the present electric lightschedules in effect, eliminating an auto-matic reduction in rates, were held be-fore the Alabama Public Service Com-mission on July 7 and 8. Testimony before the commissionwas completed on the night of July 8and the case was taken under advise-ment pending the filing of a budget forthe last half of the year by J. S.Pevear, president of the company, andgeneral manager of the property underthe receiver. Mr. Pevear is also to fileestimates of the receipts of the prop-erty for the last half of the year basedon the present rate and on the advancedrate. Similar estimates are to be
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Fleet of Buses Serving Territory Now Without Railway Facilities Grand Concourse to Mosholu Parkwayat 207th Street, a distance of 8.3 miles.The buses are run on a ten-minuteheadway so far as possible. As soonas additional equipment is received, itis planned to open up another routefrom Fort Lee Ferry thence via 126thStreet to Fifth Avenue and to sand-wich in with the first-named route soas to give a five-minute schedule overthe Concourse. These routes do notoperate except for about a half mile onstreets occupied by trolley car tracksand then only to cross the Madison Ave-nue Bridge. This bus system is the result of actiontaken by the Board of Estimate on July1, 1921, granting to Emil Leindorf,owner of the Concourse Bus Line, Inc.,permits to use the above streets formotor bus traffic. Operation is underthe direction of the City Department ofPlant and Structures, and that depart-ment furnishes starters and police toman the queie loading areas establishedat the bus terminals. The actual r

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