. Electric railway journal . m. and between p. m. and 8 p. m. it was cutfrom seven and one-half to five minutes. This wasaccomplished not alone by raising the maximumnumber of cars from six to eight, but also by rais-ing the schedule speed per cent ( to10 ). This means that the round trip of is now made in forty instead of forty-five min-utes. With the five-minute service, the operatorshave to make seven meets on this line. A Nachodheadway recorder at the center of the line is anencouragement to uniformity of headway. A speci-men record is reproduced
. Electric railway journal . m. and between p. m. and 8 p. m. it was cutfrom seven and one-half to five minutes. This wasaccomplished not alone by raising the maximumnumber of cars from six to eight, but also by rais-ing the schedule speed per cent ( to10 ). This means that the round trip of is now made in forty instead of forty-five min-utes. With the five-minute service, the operatorshave to make seven meets on this line. A Nachodheadway recorder at the center of the line is anencouragement to uniformity of headway. A speci-men record is reproduced on page 476. The aver-age haul is just 2 miles. A typical comparison of service follows: Regulartrips raised from 146 to 210; extra trips from fifty-four to ninety; regular car-hours from fifty-fourto seventy-four; extra car-hours from twenty-oneto thirty-four; regular car-miles from 485 to 698;extra car-miles from 179 to 299. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that the highrate of acceleration gives the cars a bucking power. Summit Avenue Line—Operators Equipment of Fort Worth Safety Car, and Interior View cause of its diversified traffic conditions. It isestimated that about 10,000 people are served bythe cars on this line. They comprise the workersin the business district, the people in a high-classresidential section and those in a settlement ofpoorer workers. An idea of the varied character ofthe districts served may be secured from the illus-trations on page 475. If the cars were satisfactoryunder the conditions of the Summit Avenue line, itwas thought, they would be a success almost every-where. The Kind of Service Offered On Nov. 1, 1916, all of the double-truck cars onSummit Avenue were removed and the new carsinstalled. The headway from a. m. and m. and from 8 p. m. to midnight was cut from which enabled them to weather an 8V2-in. snowfallin January, 1917, better than the bigger cars wereable to do. Preliminary Publicity—The Public Response When the new
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