. The Street railway journal . see the practical value of this step, which may ultimately provea great drawback, but the feeling between the State and themunicipality appears to have played an important part in thequestion. It will be remembered that the cost of constructing the tunnelsis defrayed by the municipality, while the operating companyprovides the rolling stock, track, lighting, signaling, etc. Therent charged by the city for the subway amountsto about 30 per cent of the gross receipts. From the last annual report of the MetropolitanRailway Company it appears that the rolling stockin
. The Street railway journal . see the practical value of this step, which may ultimately provea great drawback, but the feeling between the State and themunicipality appears to have played an important part in thequestion. It will be remembered that the cost of constructing the tunnelsis defrayed by the municipality, while the operating companyprovides the rolling stock, track, lighting, signaling, etc. Therent charged by the city for the subway amountsto about 30 per cent of the gross receipts. From the last annual report of the MetropolitanRailway Company it appears that the rolling stockin service over the 24 km then operated, consisted(May, 1904) of 132 motor cars and 462 trail this time a number of cars have been MAP OF THE PARIS METROPOLITAN RAILWAY ing the Opera to the Place Gambetta, just beyond Pere LachaiseCemetery in the east. Until the opening of this section, thelength of lines in service was about 24 km (15 miles). Line 3,now open, divides the irregular ellipse formed by the first twolines, serves the central boulevards of the city and adds 5 milesto the system. The southern portion of line 2 is also practi-cally ready for service, and only requires the completion of thetwo bridges over the Seine—one at Passy and the other closeto the Pont de Bercy—to form a circle with the> northern por-tion. These two bridges will be ready for service during thefirst half of 1905. Reference to the accompanying map will show that the linesof the Metropolitan Railway, in service, constructing and au-
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