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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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nsportation problem of Philadelphia is renderedespecially difficult on account of the narrow streets, many ofthem being not more than 25 ft. to 30 ft. from curb to curb.As in other American cities vehicle traffic is utterly withoutrestriction. A wagon may stand alongside the curb indefinitely,or back up to the curb and discharge a load while the cartraffic is at a standstill. The passenger-carrying lines operatein only one direction on most of the streets, because there isroom for only one track, but on all such streets the unrestrictedvehicles may move in either direction, getting in the way ofone another and in the way of the cars without regard to lossof time. To attempt to place more cars on the streets withheavy traffic, in the words of an officer of the company, wouldsimply retard the movement of the present schedule. Thecongestion is not only on the single-track streets but on thedouble-track streets as well. Market Street, from Delaware SUPPLEMENT TO THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL
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PREPARED AND ENGRAVED FOR THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL BY G. WM, BAIST, PHILADELPHI April 4, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 503 River to City Hall, and Arch Street, from Delaware River toNinth Street (both double-track streets), and Chestnut Streetand Walnut Street, from Front Street to Broad Street (bothsingle track streets), could not well give free movement tomore cars in the evening rush hours. The crossing at Eighth and Market (which is a single trackcrossing a double track), is one of the busiest spots in the city.Three hundred and fifteen cars pass this point every eveningbetween 5 oclock and 6 oclock, at which time the vehicletraffic is at its niaxiniuni. At all the principal intersections ofMarket, Chestnut and Arch with the cross streets a great dealof time is lost to passenger movement by reason of the un- In Philadelphia, as in New York and Chicago, the people will probably soon demand that there be adopted and enforced bythe municipal authorities adequate regulation of vehi

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