. Electric railway journal . the subway leave the city for thesummer months while many other passengers who regularlyride in the subway prefer the elevated and surface cars dur-ing the summer. While the subway does not get its pro- Year. 1905. . Percentage Monthly Lowest of mo. Highest average. month. average. month. 9,684,109 6,070,908 131704,57612,481,530 8,555,795 15,609,51615,502,000 11,550,000 76. 17,750,000 Percent- Ratio ofage max. mo. to , month. 141-5 portion of passengers during the summer months it morethan makes up th
. Electric railway journal . the subway leave the city for thesummer months while many other passengers who regularlyride in the subway prefer the elevated and surface cars dur-ing the summer. While the subway does not get its pro- Year. 1905. . Percentage Monthly Lowest of mo. Highest average. month. average. month. 9,684,109 6,070,908 131704,57612,481,530 8,555,795 15,609,51615,502,000 11,550,000 76. 17,750,000 Percent- Ratio ofage max. mo. to , month. 141-5 portion of passengers during the summer months it morethan makes up this loss in the winter months, when ridingin the subway is more comfortable than in the surface or elevated cars. DAILY VARIATION IN TRAFFIC Information with regard to the daily variation in traffichas not been shown as the ticket sales cannot be considereda measure of the number of passengers carried, since manypersons acquire a small stock of tickets for convenience,thus apparently increasing the days traffic. The effect of. ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■EUbWKMtMbiHiKCIBBHbbWtttoUttbMbtikiHBBBBBaBM■■■■■■■■■■■■ Gk ■^V*^-^(-■■■■■■■■■■a BBBBBBBBaBBB[---U-r-r-£:-l-l,l t-L .I>BBBBaBaBBBB K1-1-1-1- h m- r t- V>- udS 1- k E h 0 «j z i to;1mm n CO » r» m f u> £0 E z « ©*>«> ^1- X - zga y »0»NMDvlOp<ION(U--«Oa<02,h. Arnold Report—Loading Diagram of Northbound LocalTrain, Evening Rush Hour such practice on the apparent volume of traffic when con-sidering periods of more than a day, however, is minimizedto such an extent that it can be neglected. As a matter ofgeneral observation, it may be stated that the lightest trafficoccurs on Sunday and the heaviest on Monday, the latterbeing due to the travel of shoppers attracted by the adver-tising in the Sunday papers. At the present time the subway is carrying from 650,000to 750,000 passengers per day. At the time of wr
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