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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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s traffic which had been developed by means of itand other improvements, such as the change from horse tomechanical power and all that goes with this change,created such a congestion of traffic that conductors werepractically unable to follow the regulations as to transferslaid down by the company. The practical result of thisneglect was that the owners of the system found them-selves a year ago face to face with the fact that the peopleof New York could ride over the Metropolitan lines in anydirection and practically for any length of time for a singlefare, and that this was being done to a considerable extent.It was made possible by the reason that the MetropolitanCompany was using a ticket which, while perfectly ade-quate to meet the demands of roads with a comparativelysmall volume of traffic, and which, in fact, met the de-mands of the Metropolitan roads at first, was yet inad-equate for the system the Metropolitan had developed after October 5, 1901.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 403
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the seven or eight years of consolidation, with its improve-ments in motive power and in general traveling facilities. As a result of this growth, the ordinary issue of one daynow amounts to about 500,000 transfers, as against 30,000at the time the transfer system was started nine or tenyears ago. Madison Avenue, in horse-car days, just pre-vious to electrical equipment, issued about 15,000 transfersper day. It now issues 75,000. These statistics are given to show that the problem pre-sented, and consequently its solution, made the question anentirely different one from that where a much smallertraffic is concerned. The minute details called for inissuing transfers and the time which would be required ifthey were all properly followed by the conductor, made theStedman ticket, in my opinion, of no more value as a safe-guard on the Metropolitan lines than a piece of paper withnothing printed upon it, but giving the holder an unlimitedprivilege of riding in any direction over all the lin

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