. Electric railway journal . 001 1 1 1 Distance Scale- Mil« z >A W \ \ EUCLID AVE LINC Dl^TRlBUTCsAcoOROinoIo FIG. 3—TYPICAL ON AND OFF CHART MADE FOR EACHOF TEN PRINCIPAL, LINES Summary of Length of Passenger Rides Average hauL Annual aa Per Cent of 1918 of Total 5,034,357 5,263,693 5,432,242 4,440,291 2,309,946 1,765,617 1,646,804 1,737,986 27,630,936 ber of rides per capita will have reached from 350 to360 rides per annum when the estimated 1930 popula-tion is reached. This would result in the necessityto handle 525,000,000 to 540,000,000 reven
. Electric railway journal . 001 1 1 1 Distance Scale- Mil« z >A W \ \ EUCLID AVE LINC Dl^TRlBUTCsAcoOROinoIo FIG. 3—TYPICAL ON AND OFF CHART MADE FOR EACHOF TEN PRINCIPAL, LINES Summary of Length of Passenger Rides Average hauL Annual aa Per Cent of 1918 of Total 5,034,357 5,263,693 5,432,242 4,440,291 2,309,946 1,765,617 1,646,804 1,737,986 27,630,936 ber of rides per capita will have reached from 350 to360 rides per annum when the estimated 1930 popula-tion is reached. This would result in the necessityto handle 525,000,000 to 540,000,000 revenue rides perannum. With a population of 2,000,000 and 370 ridesper capita, there would be 740,000,000 revenue rides. It is pointed out that with a population in Clevelandnow approxi-mately at themillion mark, itcompares aboutequally with thepopulationwhich existedwhen the firstrapid transitlines were in-stalled in Chi-BostonPhiladel- TRANSFERS AT PUBLIC SQUAREFROM WEST TO EAST OECCMBER IZTH,l9ia sr CLAIR AVE. SUPERIOR AVE. FIG. 4—CHART SHOWING DISTRIBU-TION OP TRANSFER PASSENGERSAT PLTBLIC SQUARE 3,017 miles c a g 0andphia. The generalcharacter of thestreet railwaytraffic of Cleve-land is into thecentral businessdistrict fromthe variousresidential dis-tricts and toand from thefactories, muchof the latterp a s s i n gthrough the central business district. The trafficto the central district is essentially radial, comingfrom east, west and south. The travel to the factories,however, was found to be largely of a crosstovra char-acter. Of this riding, a complete traffic check givingthe origin and destination of passengers on ten ofthe principal lines of the city, and a special checkon two crosstown lines, together with a classifica-tion of the transfers collected on the entire city sys-tem for a twenty-four hour period, reveals the fact thatthe average haul on the principal lines of Cleveland,such as Euclid, St. Clair and Detroit, is noticeably report indicated this to
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