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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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i-.^ cents, which, as I have shoMn, is lessthan the average fares on the Paris tramways, less by more than a(;uarter of a cent than the average tares on the omnibus of Paris.Fn London, where the Penny Bus is so much in evidence thatone would imagine he could get all over London tor 2 cents, themean rate per mile is nearly 2 cents—that is, .92 ot an Hnglishpenny. The tramways of Londm charge over one and a halt centsper mile, and the fares range, as do those of the omnibus, from 2cents to 12, according to distance.
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DELEGATES To Till; STKICKT KAII.W.W CONVEXTIOX AT THE SOUTH SIDE ELEVATED POWER STATION. OCT. J. \- thc population to come lo him. but has gone out, true .-\mcricanfashion, in advance of population, and built up districts at greatexpense, which he now works with a profit, not alone to himself,but to the cily whose revenue from taxes is thereby increased. Onthe question of charges, the American street railway comparesfavorably with similar systems abroad. In the first place, we havesolved the question of a uniform fare, while nearly every munici-pality which I have visited in Europe is struggling, apparentlyhopelessly, with this question. Why? because the municipality hasnot the courage of private enterprises. A uniform fare, it is con-tended, gives the longer haul an advantage over the shorter; so.to avoid this, in Glasgow the acme of absurdity has been reachedby a one-cent fare for a tritle over a half a mile. It is far betterfor a man to walk half a mile than to ride anyhow, and qui

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