. The Street railway journal . anner. If it should seem desirable to have a circulation of passen-gers in one direction through the car, they might pass forwardin the car just before reaching a station, and then out throughthe four leading doors, all entering being by the four rear side door cars are not too cold on the lake front of Chicago, The carrying capacity of Fig. 24 may be illustrated by vvliatit might do at the Brooklyn Bridge. The bridge trains areobliged to carry in a single rush hour as many as 35,000 passen-gers. But if the terminals were fully utilized it appears thatth
. The Street railway journal . anner. If it should seem desirable to have a circulation of passen-gers in one direction through the car, they might pass forwardin the car just before reaching a station, and then out throughthe four leading doors, all entering being by the four rear side door cars are not too cold on the lake front of Chicago, The carrying capacity of Fig. 24 may be illustrated by vvliatit might do at the Brooklyn Bridge. The bridge trains areobliged to carry in a single rush hour as many as 35,000 passen-gers. But if the terminals were fully utilized it appears thatthe capacity of the railway tracks could be not less than 41,600seats an hour, if elevated cars of the new type were used, run-ning with the present headway, or 50,000 seats an hour if spe-cial bridge cars were used, the trains loading or unloadingfrom one side only in ten or twelve seconds. It should be notedthat cars with side doors between seats facing each other arethe only cars that can be loaded and unloaded simultaneously. €6 AVMrs «mi ovKR Burrass WlinU OVER tAJICLSHElfiHT - AAH, TO ROOFVljim OF DOOBA — OPCMHtlCTTOF DOORS■WIDTH or AlSLt BETWEEN POSTS itfW ^sfibttles are usedo-niy bytrtoicrrnun ^asr^ Si^t dnors are o/xrafdd ^ ffuarabv comrTiprcsse^l> ar A,; Vfifh aufzimsfic slectrtc tfartthjSjfinaf, fra/ri 4oes not move t/// £¥i:ryQpor/s tighf/^ c/oi^. FIG. 22.—PROPOSED CAR WITH EIGHT SIDE D( loRS AND CENTER AISLE, 66 SEATS they ought to be satisfactory for subway, or even elevated ser-vice, especially if the elevated platforms are covered and en-closed, as in Paris, or better, as in Berlin, where inexpensivesteel roofs span both tracks and platforms above and glass-lighted side walls are used. While this new car has 50 per cent more seats than thatshown in Fig. 16, it is possible to gain still more seating ca-pacity by widening the upper part of the car, as in would provide sixteen ext
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