. Electric railway journal . he trolley companies must dosome real merchandising—they must put out the kindof service that will satisfy the people after it has beenproduced. In some cases running time can be cut, orbetter headways provided so as to lessen least an attempt should be made to indicate to thepublic that its welfare is being considered. Then, too,the trolley company can add complementary bus serviceas feeders to existing rail lines serving territory nowtapped by the jitneys, but nevertheless competing to alarge extent with the trolley lines. Undoubtedly transportati
. Electric railway journal . he trolley companies must dosome real merchandising—they must put out the kindof service that will satisfy the people after it has beenproduced. In some cases running time can be cut, orbetter headways provided so as to lessen least an attempt should be made to indicate to thepublic that its welfare is being considered. Then, too,the trolley company can add complementary bus serviceas feeders to existing rail lines serving territory nowtapped by the jitneys, but nevertheless competing to alarge extent with the trolley lines. Undoubtedly transportation of the future will be aunified system that will utilize both trackways and high-ways according to their respective economic spheres. July 9, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 41. Trolley Freight and Motor-Truck Customers The Trolley Freight Systems of the Springfield-Worcester-Boston Area Hold Their Own Through AdverseTimes Because of Reliability, Frequency of Service and Low Cost—Healthy Growth Attained Despite Drawbacks. Two Motor Cars in Electric Freight Train IT IS well known that the electric railways in theolder, more settled parts of the United States, par-ticularly New England, were not built with theidea of carrying anything but passengers. When theydid undertake freight and express carriage they foundit necessary to overcome both franchise and physicalobstacles. The lack of properly equipped and locatedfreight houses and of unimpeded track facilities provedan especially severe handicap. Therefore, it is nowonder that more than one Eastern road made but ahalf-hearted attempt and then quit this field. Morerecently the advent of the motor truck has put afurther damper on such efforts. The very truth of these statements lends all themore interest to the work of a group of electric rail-ways which has succeeded in attaining a healthy growthdespite the drawbacks of partial operation over citystreets and in a district where good roads and shortruns give the motor truck ma
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