. Electric railway journal . Providence Improvements—Automatic Signal on PrairieAvenue ing the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, increased switch-ing connections between intersecting tracks, additionalcross-over facilities and a new storage track for loop serving the Union Station has been a feature ofthe civic center for many years, and this is retained inthe new arrangement of tracks, although additional switches are provided to enable cars operated on Washington andFrancis Streets to reach and leave the railroad Washington Street side of the Plaza is used largelyin unlo
. Electric railway journal . Providence Improvements—Automatic Signal on PrairieAvenue ing the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, increased switch-ing connections between intersecting tracks, additionalcross-over facilities and a new storage track for loop serving the Union Station has been a feature ofthe civic center for many years, and this is retained inthe new arrangement of tracks, although additional switches are provided to enable cars operated on Washington andFrancis Streets to reach and leave the railroad Washington Street side of the Plaza is used largelyin unloading and the Exchange Place side in loading cars,and this reserved area forms an island which provides amplerefuge for passengers while waiting for particular Providence Improvements—Interior View cf New Car The Exchange Place loop was placed in commission inDecember, 1912, and has relieved congestion in adjacentthoroughfares as shown in Table II. Table II—Cars Run Between 5:30 and 6:30 Before andAfter Installation of Exchange Place Loop Name of Street Direction Between Before After VVeybosset Eastward Mathewson and Dorrance Streets 151 129Weybosset Eastward Dorrance and Turks Head 131 90 Westminster Westward Turks Head and Dorrance 138 94 Westminster Westward Dorrance and Mathewson 123 87 Dorrance Southward Loop I!ranch-ofT and Westminster 103 72Dorrance Southward Westminster and Weybosset 103 72 Dorrance Northward Weybosset and Exchange Place 84 63 In this rearrangement of traffic the car movement wasincreased from sixty-five to seventy-five cars per hour onWashington Street, east-bound, between Mathewson andDorrance Streets; from fifty-eight to seventy-five per hourbetween the same points, west-bound; from ninety to ninety-
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