. New York city transit ... A memorandum addressed to the Public Service Commission of the First district . necessary to call attention to the fact that surfacecars are overcrowded in all the boroughs, and frequently dan-gerously so. Even on lines in the Bronx and Richmond, wherethere is abundant room for more cars, one can iind the accommo-dation so insufficient that at times it is almost impossible to geton cars at intermediate points. In JNlanhattan a number of carefulcounts were made during the rush hours of the traffic on differentlines to determine the extent of the overcrowding, and the
. New York city transit ... A memorandum addressed to the Public Service Commission of the First district . necessary to call attention to the fact that surfacecars are overcrowded in all the boroughs, and frequently dan-gerously so. Even on lines in the Bronx and Richmond, wherethere is abundant room for more cars, one can iind the accommo-dation so insufficient that at times it is almost impossible to geton cars at intermediate points. In JNlanhattan a number of carefulcounts were made during the rush hours of the traffic on differentlines to determine the extent of the overcrowding, and the resultsfor two lines are shown in Diagrams IX and X. Diagram IXgives the numbers of cars, passengiers and seats northbound onMadison avenue, grouped in five-minute and half-hour periods. Itwill be noted that from 5 to 7 p. m. there were only three five-minute periods in which there were more seats than cars had over 100 passengers each; one had 120. The irreg-ularity of the running of the cars is very marked, the numberpassing in five minutes varying from 3 to 12. This is a matter that. 27 evidently needs serious attention, and something should be donewherever such irregularity occurs to remove the causes, whetherby better traffic regulation or better car regulation. As to the accommodation furnished on Madison avenue, thenumber of cars is evidently conditioned by the fact that they haveto run on Forty-second street on the same tracks as crosstown 6 and 7 p. m. 82 cars were run north on Madison ave-nue. On a similar branching line in Boston 134 cars are run perhour each way, with a maximum of 220 an hour on a street cor-responding \Aith Forty-second street. Moreover, it appears from a count made by the company thaton Madison avenue on December 29, 1902, about 126 cars wererun north from 6 to 7 p. m., or 53 per cent, more than on June17, 1907. It is true that the traffic was heavier in 1902, about7,540 persons being carried, against 5,927 in 1907. Bu
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