. Electric railway journal . have been work-ing is financially correct as to construc-tion estimates made to the people atthe election April 5, 1920. The 181miles of track built during the pastnine months have cost, including theoverhead, between $95,000 and $97,000a mile. The commission is now In aposition, however, whereby it may buildthe best type of railway constructionfor $62,649 per mile. Progress Expected by End of Year Considerable trackage to be built dur-ing the coming spring and summer inunpaved streets may be built for as lowas $35,000 a mile. This will bring theaverage cost of the
. Electric railway journal . have been work-ing is financially correct as to construc-tion estimates made to the people atthe election April 5, 1920. The 181miles of track built during the pastnine months have cost, including theoverhead, between $95,000 and $97,000a mile. The commission is now In aposition, however, whereby it may buildthe best type of railway constructionfor $62,649 per mile. Progress Expected by End of Year Considerable trackage to be built dur-ing the coming spring and summer inunpaved streets may be built for as lowas $35,000 a mile. This will bring theaverage cost of the construction of miles of track proposed in theA and B groups in the ordinance ap-proved last April to a price consider-ably below the $70,000 figure estimatedlast April when the plan was proposed. The Mayor stated that the construc-tion progress to date shows that the re-maining 62 miles of track in the A andB groups can be built by Dec. 1 of thisyear. The first section of the MunicipalRailway is now in TAVO PICTURES SHOWING DEVASTATION BY FIRE AT LEVIS March 5, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 461 Lower Wages and Fares Planned Trustees of Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway, Operating730 Miles, Plan to Rewrite Union Contract The trustees of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway, Boston, Mass.,have notified their employees who are members of the Amalgamated Associa-tion that they do not intend to renew the existing contract as to wages andworking conditions. This contract expires on May 1. The trustees sent aformal letter to the secretary of the joint conference board of the Amalgamated,copies being furnished to all the local papers. He has threatened to call a referendumon it. He said opposition had beengrowing because the plan released thecompany from paving between tracks. Mayor T. M. Mitchell signed theordinance and sent it to the companyon Feb. 17. It has since been acceptedby the company. THE trustees call attention to thefact that the present wage
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