. The Street railway journal . relay theold cable track on account of the rail being worn out, thatportion of the track reconstructed in 1903 was in such badcondition that it was considered best to relay both of thetracks and put the street into first-class shape. In order to understand the need for speed in the construc-tion, it should be stated that the Olive Street line is the onehaving the heaviest traffic in the United Railways the middle of the day the cars are minutes apart,and night and morning during the hours of heaviest travel,the headway between cars is reduced to
. The Street railway journal . relay theold cable track on account of the rail being worn out, thatportion of the track reconstructed in 1903 was in such badcondition that it was considered best to relay both of thetracks and put the street into first-class shape. In order to understand the need for speed in the construc-tion, it should be stated that the Olive Street line is the onehaving the heaviest traffic in the United Railways the middle of the day the cars are minutes apart,and night and morning during the hours of heaviest travel,the headway between cars is reduced to 50 seconds. OliveStreet throughout its entire length is a narrow street, only36 ft. wide between curbs, and lined with retail stores. Asa concrete construction for the track was decided upon, itwas necessary to remove the cars from each track duringits construction. The street being entirely too narrow for athird temporary track, it was necessary to route the cars overanother parallel line. Hence, any delay in the progress of. FIG. j.—SECTION OF 1903 CONSTRUCTION the construction would mean annoyance to the residents andshopkeepers along the street, inconvenience to the regularpatrons of the line and loss of traffic to the railroad. After a number of plans had been considered, it was de-cided to perform the work in two sections, building bothtracks between Fourteenth Street and Boyle Avenue (29,118ft. of track, equal to miles,) early in the spring, and thatportion between Sixth Street and Fourteenth Street (3670 track, equal to mile,) during the middle of the sum-mer. The work between Sixth Street and Fourteenth Streetwas postponed until the summer at the request of the mer-chants on lower Olive Street, who did not like to see theirspring trade interfered with. It was decided to use the single track on Olive Street notunder construction for west-bound cars, sending east-boundWellston cars down Washington Avenue and across Four-teenth Street to Olive Street, a
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