. The Street railway journal . ARRANGEMENT OF PLATFORM, MOTORMANS VESTIBULE,STEPS, ETC. arrangement in this respect being exactly like that of theNew York subway cars. The seats, which are arrangedlongitudinally to give maximum standing room, will ac-commodate forty persons. They are of rattan and 18 , leaving an aisle about 3 ft. 4 ins. wide for standingpassengers in addition to the large space in the large proportion of standing room is particularly de-sirable in this case because of the nature of the rush-hour. CROSS SECTION AT END SILL AND BOLSTER and the one which
. The Street railway journal . ARRANGEMENT OF PLATFORM, MOTORMANS VESTIBULE,STEPS, ETC. arrangement in this respect being exactly like that of theNew York subway cars. The seats, which are arrangedlongitudinally to give maximum standing room, will ac-commodate forty persons. They are of rattan and 18 , leaving an aisle about 3 ft. 4 ins. wide for standingpassengers in addition to the large space in the large proportion of standing room is particularly de-sirable in this case because of the nature of the rush-hour. CROSS SECTION AT END SILL AND BOLSTER and the one which is expected to do so much to reduceplatform accidents and delays, is the method of simultane-ously closing the doors and raising the car steps, or con-trariwise, opening the doors and lowering the steps. Thelatter, of course, are double because the vestibule is flushwith the rest of the car floor. The actuating mechanism for a pair of doors on eachside consists of an air motor supplied from the regular air-
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