. The Street railway journal . VIEW AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE HONRAH BRIDGE APPROACH lines in the main native thoroughfares, although these aremuch narrower than ordinarily found in large cities of theWest, but hardly more so than in some of the smaller oldtowns of Europe, especially the Continent. The Chitpore Road,which forms one of two main arteries of the native section, isprobably unique as regards density of traffic, including footpassengers, carriages and carts, besides the electric cars; buteven with this dense traffic the Western visitor is astonished to A VIEW ALONG CHOWRINGHEE ROAD
. The Street railway journal . VIEW AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE HONRAH BRIDGE APPROACH lines in the main native thoroughfares, although these aremuch narrower than ordinarily found in large cities of theWest, but hardly more so than in some of the smaller oldtowns of Europe, especially the Continent. The Chitpore Road,which forms one of two main arteries of the native section, isprobably unique as regards density of traffic, including footpassengers, carriages and carts, besides the electric cars; buteven with this dense traffic the Western visitor is astonished to A VIEW ALONG CHOWRINGHEE ROAD from the nearest rail to the curb does not exceed 2 ft. This isnecessary in order to give sufficient clearance on the other sideof the tracks to accommodate at least one vehicle. As remarked above in the description of Calcutta, the entirearea of the city is flat. There are no grades to speak of, exceptwhen crossing three bridges, the approaches to which do notexceed 150 yds. to 200 yds., the grades being not more than4 per c
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