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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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tter advice, which was considered applicable toLondon with its population of nearly 7,000,000, its enormouscongestion of street traffic, its narrow streets and its greatwealth, that I now beg leave to repeat for your own city. RELIEVING CONGESTION ON MARKET STREETThe number of passengers entering San Francisco from theferries, a number which is steadily increasing, indicates the de-sirability of having as many lines as possible reach this pointof passenger origin so as to reduce to the minimum the neces-sity of transferring from one line to another. The existingfacilities cannot be improved as long as the tributary lines are cable were discarded, the turn-table could be removed, and inits place could be substituted loops around which the electri:cars could be run. This is the method employed for turningthe trolley cars at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge,where 292 cars per hour are handled, with a total annual pas-senger travel of 110,000,000, which is about four times that of
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ORNAMENTAL CENTER-POLE CONSTRUCTION IN COLOGNE operated electrically, while those running on Market Streetare cable. To properly improve the situation, the MarketStreet lines now operated by cable should be reconstructed intoelectric railroads, and the tributary railroads, such as Califor-nia, Sutter, Geary, OFarrell and Eddy, should run all or someof their cars along Market Street to the ferry houses. At present the Market Street line can cany no more cars,not that the limit of carrying capacity of the tracks has beenreached, but on account of the terminal arrangement at theferry. The present cable cars at the ferry have to be placedone by one on a turn-table and reversed in direction. If the

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