. Electric railway journal . tates Fuel Administration. We request that you paste these posters in some con-spicuous place in all passenger cars operating in city service. The United States Fuel Administration requests you togive this your personal attention and to see that the skip-stop service is operated so as to give satisfaction to thepublic. By so doing you will be rendering a patrioticservice. Yours very truly,United States Fuel Administration. Exhibit IV Suggestions to Be Considered In Adopting the Skip-StopSystem in Order That Maximum Fuel Saving andReasonable Improvement in Service M
. Electric railway journal . tates Fuel Administration. We request that you paste these posters in some con-spicuous place in all passenger cars operating in city service. The United States Fuel Administration requests you togive this your personal attention and to see that the skip-stop service is operated so as to give satisfaction to thepublic. By so doing you will be rendering a patrioticservice. Yours very truly,United States Fuel Administration. Exhibit IV Suggestions to Be Considered In Adopting the Skip-StopSystem in Order That Maximum Fuel Saving andReasonable Improvement in Service MayBe Obtained In adopting the skip-stop system as a fuel-saving measureduring the war, there are three fundamental principleswhich must be observed in order that the proper resultsmay be assured. These are as follows: A. The system must be applied to the entire city, in-cluding the business district as well as the residence dis-trict, and not merely to the latter. CAR POSTER TO REMIND CREW OF MEANS AVAILABLEFOR SAVING ENERGY. 38 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 53, No. 1 B. The stopping points must be located so as to servethe people to the best advantage rather than to secure uni-form spacing or to follow any arbitrary rule. This maybring some of the stopping points on the near side of thestreet, some on the far side, and some in the middle of ablock. It is better, however, to have such a diversity, withthe points properly located, than to have uniformity if con-venience of location is sacrificed to secure this result. C. The number of stopping points must not be toogreat. There should be not more than eight per mile (aver-aging 660 ft. apart) in business districts, six per mile (aver-aging 880 ft. apart) in residence districts and four per mile(averaging 1320 ft. apart) in the open country. The remarkable improvement in the service which hasbeen effected in Washington by the skip-stop system hasbeen largely due to the proper observance of these prin-ciples. In addition to the ab
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