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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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miles there is daily crowded thebusiness workers of the Greater City, including its NewJersey suburbs to the west. These latter, however, arewidely distributed, and well served by numerous ferries, sothat the greatest congestion on Manhattan Island occursfrom the north, on account of its desirability for metro-politan residence, and on ihe one all-land route toBrooklyn. The transportation problem is essentially one dependingupon the peculiarities of human nature. For a daily per-formance, a person will submit ro nearly any inconvenience,to almost unbearable overcrowding on surface lines, to thedisagreeable features o: tunnels or of tiresome stair climb-ing to steam elevated lines for the privilege of a continuousride between home and business. It is to this fact, andalso to the peculiar physical configuration of the city thatthe immense traffic in Manhattan and upon the BrooklynBridge is due. Manhattan Island, which formerly comprised New York October 5, 1901.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.
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384 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIIL No. 14. City, is about 13 miles long, with an average width below155th Street of 2 miles. Apart from its elongated shape, thelocation of the traffic districts for delivery of passengers arein many respects conducive to a steady business. Each ofthe several business districts, such as those devoted toshopping, hotels, wholesale business and office buildings,instead of being co-extensive, as in most large cities, isdistinct. Each occupies a zone largely to itself, and thussubdividing the terminals of the long-haul traffic providesa large amount of short-haul intsmess for all transporta-tion lines. It has been stated ihat the Sixth Avenue Man-hattan elevated line averages one and a half passengers perseat for each single trip, and the Broadway surface line,from Fifty-Ninth Street to South Ferry, three passengersper seat per single trip; the latter has probably the great-est proportion of short-haul traffic on any surface line. The financial and off

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