. Electric railway journal . ine is not physically connected to the trunk railwaybecause that municipality plans to operate its cars over afuture extension northeast into Berlin, but passengers maybuy tickets at Schoneberg stations to any station on thetrunk line and vice versa. At Wittenbergplatz trains converge from the three west-ern terminals of the trunk line and, in the near future, willdo so from the Wilmersdorf line. This traffic, as well as 378 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. io. that from Schoneberg, must be carried on a two-track linewhich now has a two-and-one-half minute
. Electric railway journal . ine is not physically connected to the trunk railwaybecause that municipality plans to operate its cars over afuture extension northeast into Berlin, but passengers maybuy tickets at Schoneberg stations to any station on thetrunk line and vice versa. At Wittenbergplatz trains converge from the three west-ern terminals of the trunk line and, in the near future, willdo so from the Wilmersdorf line. This traffic, as well as 378 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. io. that from Schoneberg, must be carried on a two-track linewhich now has a two-and-one-half minute rush-hour and afour-minute normal headway. The station platforms andsignal system impose limitations which will make any radi-cal improvement in capacity impracticable. To relieve itsmain line, the company therefore is planning a separateroute to the triangle, which was changed from a one-levelto a two-level transfer station because of a serious side- Existincj Stituuy and Elevated Lines New Subway Lints Inlcrbcromjh Electric iia. Journal Berlin and New York Rapid Transit Development—Mapof New York and Brooklyn, Showing Existing andAuthorized Elevated and Subway Lines wiping accident which occurred on Sept. 26, 1908, as de-scribed in the Electric Railway Journal for Oct. 10,1908. The original zone fares of the Berlin system have re-cently been reduced as they became prohibitive for thelonger runs. The fare reductions, which also include theSchoneberg line, are on the following basis: 15 pf. (3^4cents) reduced to 10 pf. (2^2 cents) ; 20 pf. (5 cents) to*5 pf- (sH cents) ; 25 pf. (6l4 cents) to 20 pf. (5 cents),and 30 pf. (yy2 cents) to 25 pf. (6% cents). The reductionis so applied that instead of adding 5 pf. cents) for every three stations to the 10 pf. (2l/2 cents) minimum, thisincrement is added for successive zones of three, four andfive additional stations, etc., so that the further the passen-ger rides, the greater is the number of stations for the ad-ditional f
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