. The Street railway journal . in any practical system, is claimed forthis plan, as cars can be run on both mainlines and inner circle on headway distance only. The lines cover the business district in sucha manner that the possibility of congestion oftraffic at any point is said to be reduced to aminimum. Through traffic, originating on, say, theSouth Side and terminating on the North Sideor West Side, may be accommodated in twoways, namely, by taking the proper throughcar, or by taking any inbound car, leaving itat any point on the belt platform, taking thefirst approaching inner circle car
. The Street railway journal . in any practical system, is claimed forthis plan, as cars can be run on both mainlines and inner circle on headway distance only. The lines cover the business district in sucha manner that the possibility of congestion oftraffic at any point is said to be reduced to aminimum. Through traffic, originating on, say, theSouth Side and terminating on the North Sideor West Side, may be accommodated in twoways, namely, by taking the proper throughcar, or by taking any inbound car, leaving itat any point on the belt platform, taking thefirst approaching inner circle car and trans-ferring at any point where the loop of the de-sired main line is opposite the inner circle. Local traffic terminating and originating inthe downtown district will be accommodatedin the same manner. Entrance to the subways, especially to theinner circle, may be as many and at as fre-quent intervals as the traffic demands. Afurther means of assisting transfer by provid-ing for traffic originating on one main line, as,. CROSS SECTION OF BELT-LINE TUNNFL
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