. Electric railway journal . cars is here to stay. The railwaywhich thinks it can fool itself and the public bynailing up the rear vestibule and discharging halfthe platform men is not going to get very far witheither the public or its men. It must show, as FortWorth has shown, that its first thought is moreservice and not less expense. This can be provedto the satisfaction of the public and the employeesonly through replacing the existing large cars byan adequate number of small cars, which must benew or be equipped with modern automatic safetydevices so that they will fit the job. In these d
. Electric railway journal . cars is here to stay. The railwaywhich thinks it can fool itself and the public bynailing up the rear vestibule and discharging halfthe platform men is not going to get very far witheither the public or its men. It must show, as FortWorth has shown, that its first thought is moreservice and not less expense. This can be provedto the satisfaction of the public and the employeesonly through replacing the existing large cars byan adequate number of small cars, which must benew or be equipped with modern automatic safetydevices so that they will fit the job. In these daysof world-wide warfare and unprecedented demandsfor labor, the fact that the small cars can be readilyhandled by one operator is an advantage that ac-crues to the public as well as to the railway, andthis advantage will not be questioned by the publicif it gets what it is after—safer, quicker and moreabundant service. The jitney years—1915 and 1916—were as hard [472 ] September 22, 1917 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL |473. Summit Avenue Line—Displaced Car (in Front) and New Safety Car (in Rear) at Fort Wortli on the Fort Worth company as on many other prop- terior views will help the reader to visualize the erties. The jitney finally withdrew from this field car. One must ride in it, however, to appreciate as it did elsewhere in many cases, but it left behind the possibilities of starting and stopping at the the lesson that infrequent headway has no place in rate of 3 with no jerking or excessive a city where walking distances are short and private vibration. One must ride to see how the operators automobiles many. on a single-track line make their time points. One Experience in many places had shown that the must ride to see how quickly the car is stopped, the jitney could not live and that the private automo- door opened, the passengers gotten in or out, the bile had less effect on revenue if the service was money placed in the box, the transfers issued, the in
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