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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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dsuperintended the beautifying of the parks of the Co-lumbus. O.. Electric Railway, the famous Lagoon atLudlow. Ky.. opposite Cincinnati, and the park of theelectric road from Youngstown to Niles. (J. wait, perhaps 5 or 10 minutes, for the crossing to becomeclear, and risk his chance of arriving at his destinationon time. He chooses to risk his life. But many per-sons with whom time is no object exhibit the same pro-pensity; from a dislike to making a sudden and unex-pected stop. Hy the law of inertia, there is always moreor less of a shock in stopping and starting; that is. acontinuous motion is easier than a broken one. Thereis also a natural reluctance to allowing an inanimateobject precedence over ourselves. The young man who hurries across the track in frontof the car has the same instinct as the one who helps themotorman to make schedule time by boarding the carwhile in motion. The cautious individual who hugs thesidewalk is the one who falls asleep on the car step ^m«S^3^^sn*^
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RESORT BUILDINGS, FT. WAYNE CONSOLIDATED RAILWAY. FOOLHARDY PEDESTRIANS. Why do pedestrians and drivers expose themselves tothe risk of personal injury by crossing tracks ahead of amoving car? asks a philosopher. The answer is that lifein great cities educates persons to take risks. A persondesiring to cross a street on which the traffic is heavyhas two alternatives presented to him: taking a hastysurvey of the moving vehicles he may plunge into themidst of the maelstrom and quickly thread his wayacross at considerable risk of life and limb; or he may while getting on or off. Indecision of the fair sex is thecause of many accidents. A woman will cross half way-over a street, change her mind and attempt to run back,only to be run down by cars or teams, the drivers ofwhich are totally unprepared for such a sudden move onher part. Towson. the county seat of Baltimore count)-, Md.,and Catonsville are 8 miles apart. The City and Sub-urban Railwa\- has put on through cars at 12-minuteinter\

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