. Electric railway journal . is much neareruniformity than on systems which run far out into opencountry. The only demand for short-line cars comesfrom intermediate riders who want seats. Under theL. C. C. conditions short-line cars actually have beenfound to earn less than through cars. Single-car operation is the rule except for rush-hourservice on certain Embankment routes and between Lon-don Bridge and Greenwich. Skeptics about zone farecollection may gasp upon learning that the standarddouble-deck car carries seventy-eight seated passengers,thirty-two below and forty-six above, while trai
. Electric railway journal . is much neareruniformity than on systems which run far out into opencountry. The only demand for short-line cars comesfrom intermediate riders who want seats. Under theL. C. C. conditions short-line cars actually have beenfound to earn less than through cars. Single-car operation is the rule except for rush-hourservice on certain Embankment routes and between Lon-don Bridge and Greenwich. Skeptics about zone farecollection may gasp upon learning that the standarddouble-deck car carries seventy-eight seated passengers,thirty-two below and forty-six above, while trailers seatforty-four and the few single-deck cars, thirty-two. Inpre-war days no standing was permitted, but standeesare now allowed on the lower deck to the extent of notmore than one-third as many passengers as are seatedon the same level. The platforms are wide enough forpassengers to enter and leave at the same time. Atheavy terminals the passengers are regulated to enterat the rear and leave at the front. Queues are not. ROUTES OP LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL TRAMWAYS 212 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 54, No. 5 always practicable where several routes come in overthe same track, for there is no assurance that the carswill arrive in scheduled order. Other points about car loading are the use of CarFull signs, which are not altogether successful becausethe motorman may keep up the sign long after seats areavailable; and the recent effort by means of newspaperadvertisements to accustom lower-deck passengers toboard on the left (bulkhead) side and upper-deck pas-sengers to board on the right (dasher) side of thedividing stanchion on the rear platform. Without questioning the exceptional value of themotor bus in the busy and tortuous streets of London,one experience of the London County Council Tramwaysillustrates how important is the feature of line capac-ity. This was in handling traffic to and from WoolwichArsenal at a time when more than 100,000 people wereemployed there. Although h
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