. Electric railway journal . amely, (1) balancing and equalizing theamount of traffic on adjacent streets; (2) locating ter-minals outside of or on the outskirts of the congesteddistrict; (3) providing for turning movements at cornersoutside or on the outskirts of the congested districts. Consequent upon these changes, additional loop oper-ation was utilized in the business district, to assist inprompt handling of service. This was particularly de-sirable because the narrow streets do not lend them-selves to the use of crossovers for terminals. At Some Points Three-Quarters ofCar-Hours Were Tr
. Electric railway journal . amely, (1) balancing and equalizing theamount of traffic on adjacent streets; (2) locating ter-minals outside of or on the outskirts of the congesteddistrict; (3) providing for turning movements at cornersoutside or on the outskirts of the congested districts. Consequent upon these changes, additional loop oper-ation was utilized in the business district, to assist inprompt handling of service. This was particularly de-sirable because the narrow streets do not lend them-selves to the use of crossovers for terminals. At Some Points Three-Quarters ofCar-Hours Were Transferred Fig 1, showing the routing before the changes, andTables I and II contain data illustrating the congestionon Baltimore and Fayette Streets compared to thetraffic on the two adjoining parallel streets to the south,viz., Redwood (formerly German) and Lombard will also be noticed that Howard and Fayette Streets,and Baltimore and Howard Streets were complicatedby turning movements which made these two inter-. FIG. 2—BALTIMORE LINES AS REARRANGED UNDER THEREROUTING PLAN sections the limiting points on these two 2, showing the routing after the changes wereeffected, together with Tables I and II, indicate howthe use of the four parallel and adjacent streets hasbeen balanced. At the time the rerouting study was made, 638 cars,or 66 per cent of the 960 cars leaving the businessdistrict during the maximum evening rush hours, wereoperated on Fayette and Baltimore Streets. Fifteenlines out of a total of twenty-four leaving this samedistrict were operating practically at their maximumcapacity, because of the congestion on these two was thus evident that service could not be increasedwithout first relieving the existing congestion. As adirect result of the large number of cars on these twostreets, the congestion at a number of intersections wassuch that the service operated through the centralarea on some of the north and south streets ha
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