. Report on railroad grade crossing elimination and passenger and freight terminals in Los Angeles . in January. 1918. while those of the City were of November. 1916,and July, 191. The difterence in results lies principally in that in eachcase we found a more extensive use of the bridges by the public and a lessextensive use of the adjacent tracks by the trains than was shown by thecounts of the City. The following segregations were made, all independent of direction, thefigures including movement in both directions:Motive PowerStreet Traffic Railway Traffic Human Automobiles Passenger Trains
. Report on railroad grade crossing elimination and passenger and freight terminals in Los Angeles . in January. 1918. while those of the City were of November. 1916,and July, 191. The difterence in results lies principally in that in eachcase we found a more extensive use of the bridges by the public and a lessextensive use of the adjacent tracks by the trains than was shown by thecounts of the City. The following segregations were made, all independent of direction, thefigures including movement in both directions:Motive PowerStreet Traffic Railway Traffic Human Automobiles Passenger Trains Pedestrians Trucks* Freight Trains Bicycles Wagons (separate or together, Motorcycles Switch Engines and cars Street Cars** counted as one) Light Engines*A truck is defined as a vehicle with body arranged for freight, packages, etc.**At Aliso Street two or three car trains of the Pacfiic Electric were counted as one. Los Angeles Termixai. TRAFFIC «3)0SS BRIDGES OVEB LOS ANEELES RIVER AND ACROSS AND ON SANTA FE AND SALT LAKE TRACKS AT ENDS OF BRIDGES LOS ANSELES 1918 6AM TOOPM. CA5E 070 CT SEQ California Railroad Commission Engineering Dept. FIG. 23. STREET AND nAItWAY TRAFFIC AT THE ANGELES RIVER BRIDGES This diagram shows the results of traffic counts at those bridges on the date givenIn the first column. The traffic is divided into three grotips for each crossing: pedestrian,vehicle and railroad. Fig. 22 shows some of the results of the cnunts of the trafficacross bridges over the river and on the tracks on each side of the have the average numl^er of times the crossings are used and the maxi-mum number per iiour. The chart does not show, however, at what timeof day these conditions occur at the various bridges. (This information maybe obtained from other charts not reproduced in this report.) It appears thatthe maximum traffic is between 4 P. M. and 5 P. M., although the maximumautomobile traffic is between 5 P. M. and 6 P. M. The observers
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