. Electric railway journal . the pay-as-you-leave car certainlytends to decrease the need for them. As matters standtoday, the bus tends to get the short rider and the trol- Electric Railway Journal for July 26, 1919; brought out the startling fact that the jitney got50 per cent of all people riding within H miles of thecity center, 68 per cent of all within 2 miles, 44 per centof all within 21 miles and 56 per cent of all traffic what-soever. Not all the jitney business is stolen 1, 2 and 3-minute headways introduced by the jit-neys surely have helped to create traffic.
. Electric railway journal . the pay-as-you-leave car certainlytends to decrease the need for them. As matters standtoday, the bus tends to get the short rider and the trol- Electric Railway Journal for July 26, 1919; brought out the startling fact that the jitney got50 per cent of all people riding within H miles of thecity center, 68 per cent of all within 2 miles, 44 per centof all within 21 miles and 56 per cent of all traffic what-soever. Not all the jitney business is stolen 1, 2 and 3-minute headways introduced by the jit-neys surely have helped to create traffic. Unlike the Public Service Railway, the ConnecticutCompany has begun to eat into the jitney bus trafficthrough the medium of increased service with safetycars. If safety cars alone do not wipe out the ever-narrowing margin of the 5-cent jitneur, a reduction ofthe base fare to 5 cents ought to turn the trick and speedup the schedules as well. At present the trolley fare ia6 or 8 cents, according to whether two or three zones. ley the long rider, a condition which would hold trueeven with equal fares. Bridgeport, Conn., with a population of 180,000, isanother city where the jitney bus and the flivver haveprospered exceedingly at the cost of the railway. It isstill more favorable territory than Newark, becausethe intermingling of factory and residential sectionswith the business district between gives a remarkableamount of two-way loading and because the jitneydrivers wisely confine themselves to those fat routeswhich are within 4 miles length over all Bridgeport issuch a wonderful riding town that the daily riding indexis almost unity; that is to say. there is 1 ride perdiem per inhabitant. Thus during November and De-cember, 1919, the number of bus patrons was placed at75,000 to 80,000 a day. The precise number of carriders is not available, but it was probably 90 per centas large as the number of bus riders. This estimate isbased partly upon observations and partly upon a table
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