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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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; Boston Rail-road Company from Chelsea, Revere and Lynn. The Cambridge-Arlington, Newton & West Som-erville Division serves about 130,000 population,and requires about 156 cars per hour. The companys Second and Ninth Divisions, serv-ing the Back Bay, Brookline and Allston, togetherwith parts of Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Brighton,Newton and Cambridge, require over 200 cars. Five lines to Roxbury and West Roxbury,through Columbus Avenue, Tremont Street, Shaw-mut Avenue, Washington Street and Harrison Ave-nue, serve about 125,000 population and requireabout 140 cars.Two lines to South Boston serve about 70,000 popula-tion and require about 64 cars, and the line to Dorchesterand Milton serves about 50,000 and requires about 40 cars. The above car requirements are based on the heaviesthours of the day in the summer season. From the above analysis of the system it will be seenhow serious must be the congestion of traffic in this smallbusiness area and how completely is the service of the
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TRE Wont street and BOSTON COA\MON, showing subway entrances About entire system dependent upon some relief from congestion.As a matter of fact, until the recent opening of a portionof the new Subway, Washington and Tremont Streets, thetwo main thoroughfares north and west, were centers ofcongestion, which often caused stoppage of traffic or de- September, 1898.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 475 lays equivalent to a heavy reduction of the total speedadvantage to the system in electric traction over horses.No less than 216 cars per hour formerly passed cer-tain points on Tremont Street. In an article by LouisBell, published in the Street Railway Journal in Jan-uary, 1896, was given a very interesting analysis ofthe results, in the matter of saving in speed, broughtabout by electric traction in Boston, from which ar-ticle is taken the accompanying map of a district sweptby a five-mile radius around the Boston peninsula. Theheavy lines on this maprepresent the fifteen andthirty-minute bounda-

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