. The Street railway journal . ST & SWOOD ARMATURE WINDING DEPARTMENT elevated trains, making an estimated capacity of 700 trolleycars each way per hour and sixty elevated trains. On a basisof fifty passengers per trolley car and 480 passengers per ele-vated train, the total capacity of the bridge transportation willbe 63,800 passengers per hour in each direction. This bridge -t\.- ^ LARS WAITING AT TERMINUS OF THIRTY-FOURTH STREET FERRY FROM MANHATTAN will connect directly with the elevated system in New York,so that it will bring the vast region at this eastern terminusconsiderably nearer
. The Street railway journal . ST & SWOOD ARMATURE WINDING DEPARTMENT elevated trains, making an estimated capacity of 700 trolleycars each way per hour and sixty elevated trains. On a basisof fifty passengers per trolley car and 480 passengers per ele-vated train, the total capacity of the bridge transportation willbe 63,800 passengers per hour in each direction. This bridge -t\.- ^ LARS WAITING AT TERMINUS OF THIRTY-FOURTH STREET FERRY FROM MANHATTAN will connect directly with the elevated system in New York,so that it will bring the vast region at this eastern terminusconsiderably nearer in point of time than the present Boroughof the Bronx. While it is impossible that a passenger movement of the CHANGEABLE DESTINATION SIGN of transportation, the figures published above show the oppor-tunities possessed by the Borough of Queens and the im-portance which the street railway transportation system ofthat borough will assume within the next ten years. Practically all the street railway lines in this district are nowowned and operated by the New York& Queens County Railway Company,an organization which is entirelyseparate from either of its big neigh-bors, the Brooklyn Rapid TransitCompany or the Metropolitan StreetRailway Company. The companywas chartered in 1896 as a consolida-tion of the Steinway Railway Com-pany, the Long Island City RailwayCompany, the Newto
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