. Electric railway journal . versed in 13 minutes, as against the present periods of19 minutes and 23 minutes for the run on the street. It is customary in Berlin to run sin-gle trailers with motor cars, andthe spacing between the rearends of such 62-ft. trains is tobe no m (361 ft.), so that at aspeed of 25 km ( miles) anhour the headway will be This headway is re-garded as ample, since the av-erage stop, according to surfaceexperience, does not exceed 10seconds. The station will load and un-load passengers practically as onthe street. There will be noticket booths, turnstile
. Electric railway journal . versed in 13 minutes, as against the present periods of19 minutes and 23 minutes for the run on the street. It is customary in Berlin to run sin-gle trailers with motor cars, andthe spacing between the rearends of such 62-ft. trains is tobe no m (361 ft.), so that at aspeed of 25 km ( miles) anhour the headway will be This headway is re-garded as ample, since the av-erage stop, according to surfaceexperience, does not exceed 10seconds. The station will load and un-load passengers practically as onthe street. There will be noticket booths, turnstiles or otherimpediments to rapid movement,and no special form of rollingstock. The importance of the pro-posed Leipziger Street subwayis shown in the accompanyingtravel density map, which illus-trates the effect the subwaywould have in relieving thepresent surface lines. The mapis drawn upon the basis of acount of passengers taken , 1907. The width of the linesis proportional to the number ofpassengers traveling over each. Ekctric By. Journal. Width of dotted lines indicates proportion of traffic to be taken by subway; width of solid lines that remaining on street. » Traffic Map of Berlin, Showing the Estimated Relief Afforded by Proposed Subway ( mile) distant at the important business thoroughfare, route on that day, the scale being approximately in. toFriedrich Street. The stations on the Leipziger Street every 150,000 passengers per day. As explained, thesubway will be 220 ft. to 250 ft. long, to accommodate three dotted lines indicate the proportion of traffic which will be 364 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. rVoL. XXXIV. No. 10. taken by the Leipziger Street subway and the width of thesolid lines the proportion of remaining surface car trafficafter the subway is built. About 70 per cent of the presenttraffic goes to Leipziger Street, while the remaining 30per cent is through travel. The average daily number ofcars, with or without trailers, passing Potsdamer Placebetwee
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