. Electric railway journal . hting accidents. Wheredifferent units of fare are collected, as for example, 5cents for a central area and 2 cents per zone in the sub- is a slow process and has been confined to suburbanand interurban lines on which the stops are compara-tively infrequent. The committee on fare zones early reached the con-clusion that the successful application of a zone systemin thickly built-up city areas was predicated upon thedevelopment of a speedier and safer method of fare col-lection than had heretofore been applied. The success-ful system of fare collection must be one in
. Electric railway journal . hting accidents. Wheredifferent units of fare are collected, as for example, 5cents for a central area and 2 cents per zone in the sub- is a slow process and has been confined to suburbanand interurban lines on which the stops are compara-tively infrequent. The committee on fare zones early reached the con-clusion that the successful application of a zone systemin thickly built-up city areas was predicated upon thedevelopment of a speedier and safer method of fare col-lection than had heretofore been applied. The success-ful system of fare collection must be one in which theopportunity for the conductor to overcharge the pas-senger is reduced to a minimum and in which no loop-hole is left by which the passenger can defraud the com-pany out of all or part of his fare. It must be a systemunder which the opportunity for the conductor to mis-appropriate the fare is also reduced to a minimum. Careful study was given to the applicability of theEuropean system of collecting fares. The report. ELEVATION
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