. Electric railway journal . Main Street in a fifteen-minute period are at the rate of from six to seven perminute, and at the ends of Third Street there are fivevehicles per minute, with a smaller movement at SecondStreet. Fortunately, the maximum vehicular movementdoes not coincide with the street car maximum. Theformer occurs between 10 and 11 a. m. and the latter be-tween 5 and 6 p. m. The maximum car movements onDec. 1, 1913, at South Main and Pleasant Streets wereat the rate of 160 cars per hour between 5:45 p. m. and6 p. m., and at North Main and Bedford Streets themaximum was at the ra
. Electric railway journal . Main Street in a fifteen-minute period are at the rate of from six to seven perminute, and at the ends of Third Street there are fivevehicles per minute, with a smaller movement at SecondStreet. Fortunately, the maximum vehicular movementdoes not coincide with the street car maximum. Theformer occurs between 10 and 11 a. m. and the latter be-tween 5 and 6 p. m. The maximum car movements onDec. 1, 1913, at South Main and Pleasant Streets wereat the rate of 160 cars per hour between 5:45 p. m. and6 p. m., and at North Main and Bedford Streets themaximum was at the rate of 130 cars per hour between5 p. m. and 5:15 p. m. A comparison of the density of teaming and streetcar traffic in the maximum hour on important streetsin the City Hall district shows that Main Street, be-tween Pleasant and Bedford Streets, cannot escape con-gestion unless vehicles and cars are kept moving. Thistendency to congestion is exaggerated by switching andtrolley turning of twelve to fifteen cars in the busy hour. Electric Ry Fall River Traffic—Normal-Hour Car Traffic immediately in front of the City Hall, by the same opera-tion for five or six cars opposite Granite Street, byswitching and turning east of the Pleasant Street neck,and by the blocking of both north-bound and south-bound tracks because of the use of cross-overs by carsentering Bank Street and Franklin Street. The heavyafternoon vehicular traffic overlaps the street railwayrush-hour traffic slightly but dies down rapidly after5 oclock. The street railway traffic is heavier on Satur-day afternoons and summer Sundays than on week-days, but teaming traffic is then little or nothing. EFFECT OF AUTO-TRUCK SERVICE Relatively few auto trucks are as yet in use in FallRiver, but the expectation is that the number will ma-terially increase. Motor vehicles alone and movingcause little congestion, but such traffic requires widerspacing in the streets for safety. The special com-mittee on bituminous mater
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