. Electric railway journal . nges. It will be obvious to all persons familiar with streetrailway operation and construction that the installationof the special work and the construction of the newtrack required by the rerouting was a serious taskunder war conditions. Under the terms of the ordi-nance, it was necessary for the company to installspecial work costing upward of $200,000, and new trackcosting upward of $60,000, within six months. To ac-complish this under the war conditions which existed That this difficult problem was met is shown by the during the summer and fall of 1918 was a mo
. Electric railway journal . nges. It will be obvious to all persons familiar with streetrailway operation and construction that the installationof the special work and the construction of the newtrack required by the rerouting was a serious taskunder war conditions. Under the terms of the ordi-nance, it was necessary for the company to installspecial work costing upward of $200,000, and new trackcosting upward of $60,000, within six months. To ac-complish this under the war conditions which existed That this difficult problem was met is shown by the during the summer and fall of 1918 was a most difficult task, the work compris- ing about 5900 ft. ofsingle track constructedin accordance with rigidspecifications and bestmodern practice. Special work had tobe installed, revised orrenewed at twenty-sevenlocations. The plan alsoinvolved the abandon-ment, for regular opera-tion, of about 5500 single track, mostly inoutlying sections of thecity, due to the newthrough line. The actual changingof the routes was di-. fact that the maximumnumber of passengerswhose points of boardingand leaving cars weremoved one block was lessthan 9 per cent of thetotal passengers enteringand leaving the businessdistrict on an averageweek day, and fewer than7 per cent of the totalpassengers had their pres-ent points of boardingand leaving cars movedtwo blocks. These per-centages are maximumfigures and include manypassengers not inconven-ienced by the change, asall transfer passengers areincluded, though the largemajority of them werenot affected. There are also a number of passengers on these lines who are de-livered nearer their destination by the new routingthan under the old plan, but no attempt was madeto determine what proportion of the 7 per cent and9 per cent of passengers were thus benefited. It should be stated that under the rerouting no por-tion of any line was moved more than two blocks fromits old route. Table V on page 1084 shows in an interesting wayhow the percentages we
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