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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 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 vehicle traffic,to the end that the surface cars may have free movement onthat portion of the street set apart for their use and from whichthey cannot diverge. So long as the movement or the loadingand unloading of a wagon load of coal is considered of equalor greater consequence than the prompt movement of thousandsof hurrying passengers, just so long will the rush-hour trans-portation in large cities remain unsatisfactory to the travelingpublic. It is probable that there are few large cities in thecountry where a more liberal car service in the non-rush houi.
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TYPICAL- Al-TtkXUOX ALJJlKALK AT WILLOW GKOVE IAKK regulated vehicle movement. One may stand by the hour atthese busy street intersections and watch the painstaking carewith which the police officers, by the waving of a little wand,stop and hold up cars crowded with homeward-bound, hungry,care-worn people, to permit a single pedestrian or vehicle tocross the street. Seldom can one see a police officer make anyexertion to keep obstinate drivers off the track or do anythingto expedite the movement of cars at these crossings. Whetherso intended or not the theory upon which they proceed seems tobe that the individual man or woman on the street or in avehicle must be an object of police solicitude, but the momentthat sixty to eighty men and women take passage on a car theybecome objects of solicitude to the railroad company only. Therailroad company is powerless under such conditions to offerthe public any better transit facilities than it does in the rushhours. is given to the pul)lic tha

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