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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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of cities governed by Socialists haveprescribed to the railway companies a maximum workingday of ten hours, minimum wages of 5 francs and a pay-ment of an additional 6 per cent of the wages into the em-ployees insurance fund. This has increased the expensesof a prominent Paris street railway 30 per cent. The conditions here described naturally undermine thefinancial foundations of street railways, so that the latterare forced to look for some means to relieve oppression rather than to improve traffic facilities. The writer hasentered rather minutely into these conditions because theyapply not only to France, but more or less to all of Europe. In France, as in other countries, the most interestingelectric railways are to be found in the capital. The situa-tion in Paris is well described in a report by City EngineerKortz, of Vienna, from which the following facts are taken: A large part of the traffic of Paris is cared for by omni-buses and the remainder by the tramways. The Paris omni-
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MULTIPLE UNIT TRAIN ON THE NEW FRENCH WESTERN RAILWAYBETWEEN PARIS AND VERSAILLES bus continues to flourish because the government will notpermit trolley lines within the city limits, and imposesfinancial and other conditions that serve to prohibit thebuilding of electric lines. In the suburbs, a complete net-work of trolleys has been established, and only on themost frequented streets of Paris are there conduit and ac-cumulator cars, because it is only on such thoroughfaresthat the patronage will support them. There is a working agreement between the 100 lines ofomnibuses and tramways, although they belong to dif-ferent companies. The rate of fare within the city limits isuniformly 15 cents on the top of the bus or car, and 30cents within the cars or on platforms, with the privilege ofa single transfer ticket. The routes are arranged so thata single transfer will enable a passenger to travel from anypoint in the city to any other at a maximum fare of 30cents. ( )ne of the largest con

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