. Electric railway journal . h Austin, 2i miles; Duval, 2 miles. A six-minute service is maintained all day long from theColorado River along the main business streets andthrough the heart of the city as far as i mile north ofthe University of Texas, a total distance of 2 the morning and evening peaks, the headway isthree minutes in this section. The safety cars actuallymake the one-way trip in five minutes less than before,thus giving the operators longer layovers. Because ofthe criss-cross or paralleling layout of the lines thecompany believed that it would not be good policy to
. Electric railway journal . h Austin, 2i miles; Duval, 2 miles. A six-minute service is maintained all day long from theColorado River along the main business streets andthrough the heart of the city as far as i mile north ofthe University of Texas, a total distance of 2 the morning and evening peaks, the headway isthree minutes in this section. The safety cars actuallymake the one-way trip in five minutes less than before,thus giving the operators longer layovers. Because ofthe criss-cross or paralleling layout of the lines thecompany believed that it would not be good policy toincrease the service unless it could do so on all the lines named, the S. M. A. serves the only warinstitution within Austin, the School of Military Aero-nautics, a ground school of the Signal Corps. It has1500 students. The pickings for any jitneys in Austin would be smallindeed after obeying the ordinance, which calls forbonded liability, schedules and routes. Fares in Austin are 5 cents cash; 4\ cents for tickets. At Austin This Safety Car Has Made the Continuance of Service Possible rest delivered in August, 1917. These cars are double-ended with platforms 12 in. longer than the Birney car,an increase which permits three more seated passengersin the rear vestibule and two more in the front. Thefirst three cars were operated by two men with manualcontrol until the fall of 1917, as the question of one-manoperation was then pending before, the municipality. sold in stores at $ a book, and school tickets, 2¢s. Cash is counted in Johnson fare boxes, and allpaper is registered with an International register. As many regulars are employed as ever, although theextra list has been cut from twenty to eight or runs have just been abolished in favor of straightnine-hour runs with the privilege of taking out trippers. 552 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 52, No. 13 This appears to be very satisfactory, for many men whostop at 3 or about that time are glad t
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