. The street railway review . third of a million daily. The following table gives the numberof passengers (cash and transfer) carried on the Broadway andColumbus Ave. and the Lexington and Lenox .\ve. lines, whichrun into lower Broadway, carried each hour on a single day; DAILY TRAFFIC ON LOWER BROADWAY. North. South. Total 2068702,8167,6359,2719,71311,27912,19911,132 159 2851,615 6,,32013,52213,63211, 5625512,4859,17323,,23524,91123,32622,882 North. South. 11,106 11,879 11,057 10,084 11,358 14,6-4 ,85 16,971 9,290 12,204 8,643 7,197 6
. The street railway review . third of a million daily. The following table gives the numberof passengers (cash and transfer) carried on the Broadway andColumbus Ave. and the Lexington and Lenox .\ve. lines, whichrun into lower Broadway, carried each hour on a single day; DAILY TRAFFIC ON LOWER BROADWAY. North. South. Total 2068702,8167,6359,2719,71311,27912,19911,132 159 2851,615 6,,32013,52213,63211, 5625512,4859,17323,,23524,91123,32622,882 North. South. 11,106 11,879 11,057 10,084 11,358 14,6-4 ,85 16,971 9,290 12,204 8,643 7,197 5,074 4,319 3,707 2,273 2 373 Next to the Broadway line the most interesting division of theMetropolitan system is the Fourth Ave. line. Under the old horsecare regime, the Fourth Ave division operated 80 horse cars andcarried about 50,000 people per day. Equipped with the electricconduit, the line, now running from the Post Office to 135th St. onMadison Ave., carries upon an average 190,000 passengers a day,. Grand total 354,213 SYSTEM OF METROPOLITAN STREET —Mechanical lines—Animal tractiiui. and operates 250 cars. The cars run on an average headway duringthe busy hours, of 20 seconds, a situation which it is claimed willnot be found anywhere else on a line of equal length. As previously stated the car capacity of the heaviest lines in thecity is limited by the speed with which cars can be passed throughcertain congested points; just as the carrying capacity of a huge Sept. 15. STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 537 water-pipe would be limited by the diameter of the smallest valvein the pipe. One of the most serious congestions of this kind, occurs at 23dSt. and Broadway, where Lexington Ave. cars running at 20-secondintervals have to be thrown in between the Broadway main lineand Columbus Ave. cars, passing, often at intervals of 15 seconds,and this must be done without interrupting the 23d St. crosstownline, which intersects at t
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