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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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emarkable the growth of passenger traffic has beenmuch more remarkable. Exact figures are not available for thelocal lines on Staten Island (Borough of Richmond), and inNew Jersey, but the passengers carried in all the other Bor-oughs of New York city, as indicated by table No. 3, haveshown an increase in each decade of almost 100 per cent. The surface line traffic in Manhattan and Bronx is shown inan interesting manner by tables Nos. 6 and 7, giving the dis- TABLE NO. VII.—TRAFFIC—UNION RAILWAY COMPANY ANDSOUTHERN BOULEVARD COMPANY—DEC. 17, 1902 Date of Record, Dec. 17, 1902 Total passengers, including transfers 103,592 Passengers by lines—North and South— North 34,982 South 30,461 Passengers by crosstown lines—East and West— East 19,880 West 18,269 Estimated number of passengers North in maximum hour. 3,099 Estimated number of pascngers South in maximum hour. 1,465 Estimated number of passengers East in maximum hour. . 1,672 66 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXI. No. 2.
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January io, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 67 Estimated number of passengers West in maximum hour. 1,158 Maximum hour on the average day 5-6 p. m. Estimated percentage of total twenty-four-hour traffichandled in five busy hours, 7 to lo a. m. and 5 to 7 p. m 40% Seventy-five per cent of the surface line traffic and all of theelevated railroad traffic is north and south traffic. Twenty-fiveper cent of the surface traffic is the lateral or east and westtraffic. It will therefore be understood that the average dailynorth and south traffic on Manhattan Island, all lines included,is now 1,888,878, and the average east and west traffic about379.902. The above figures, it may be said, represent the number ofpeople who are able to obtain transportation facilities, and notthe number who would ride if they could. The greater part ofthe people who reach Manhatan Island from over the riverscome by the ferries, and the majority of them are compelled towalk, some of them considerable distances, bec

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