. Electric railway journal . epairs, storage, etc 1 Driver 3 Total operating costs 7 cents per mile In this estimate extraordinary expenses resultingfrom accidents have not been taken into consideration,nor has there been any allowance made for injuries topersons and property, which are bound to occur. Itwould appear, therefore, that the total operating costsas given above, viz., 7 cents per mile, are certainly aslow as can be hoped for under the existing conditionsof the art. Dividing this 7 cents by the passenger seat-ing capacity, or four, gives a cost per seat mile of 1%cents. The cost of
. Electric railway journal . epairs, storage, etc 1 Driver 3 Total operating costs 7 cents per mile In this estimate extraordinary expenses resultingfrom accidents have not been taken into consideration,nor has there been any allowance made for injuries topersons and property, which are bound to occur. Itwould appear, therefore, that the total operating costsas given above, viz., 7 cents per mile, are certainly aslow as can be hoped for under the existing conditionsof the art. Dividing this 7 cents by the passenger seat-ing capacity, or four, gives a cost per seat mile of 1%cents. The cost of a seat mile on the San Francisco railways,including a reasonable return on the investment, is, ap-proximately, cent. In other words, the cost of aseat mile in the jitney service is at least two and a halftimes the cost of a seat mile of an electric car. If thecomparison was based on the total carrying capacity ofthe two types of vehicle, a considerably larger discrep-ancy would be found to exist. As a matter of fact, the. JITNEY-BUS—RECENT CARTOON IN DAILY TIMES OF LOS ANGELES, WHERE JITNEYS HAVE OPERATED SINCE NOVEMBER its streets, and, in fact, in large cities every effort isbeing made to divert as much of the traffic as possibleto underground railways. Apparently, therefore, thejitney in this respect is not a step in advance, and ifthere were no other objections this would be sufficientabsolutely to condemn it. But the economic condition is even more difficult tomeet. Out of 261 automobiles which were actually inoperation in San Francisco on Jan. 26, eighty-nine wereFord machines, or practically 30 per cent of the totalnumber, the next largest being Overlands, of whichthere were thirty-five. The present price of a Fordmachine, capable of seating four persons in addition tothe driver, is $565. Assuming that it can operate56,500 miles before being relegated to the scrap pile,makes the proper depreciation charge 1 cent per mile. The cost of a set of tires is within a few
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