. Electric railway journal . at moreuniform spacing of cars will be secured. 10. Introduction of the skip stop. The report says:A general readjustment of the stopping points allalong these lines should follow at once. An averagespacing of not less than 660 ft. (eight stops to the mile)should be employed. Wherever safety stops are neces-sary, they should be combined, as far as possible, withpassenger stops. Passengers will thus be affordedquicker service without any increase in the presentfree-running speed of the cars. There is no reason whya saving of from 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the ti
. Electric railway journal . at moreuniform spacing of cars will be secured. 10. Introduction of the skip stop. The report says:A general readjustment of the stopping points allalong these lines should follow at once. An averagespacing of not less than 660 ft. (eight stops to the mile)should be employed. Wherever safety stops are neces-sary, they should be combined, as far as possible, withpassenger stops. Passengers will thus be affordedquicker service without any increase in the presentfree-running speed of the cars. There is no reason whya saving of from 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the timenow consumed for a trip cannot be made by this certain number of cars that are now running will beable to provide an increase in carrying capacity, be-cause the cars can return more quickly for anothertrip. In commenting on the advantage of diverting auto-mobile traffic, the report says: Each street car, whenloaded, holds from eighty to 100 people, while the pri-vate automobile crossing its path usually carries but. FIGS. 3 AND 4—PRESENT RUSH-HOUR VEHICULAR MOVEMENT AND PROPOSED SIMPLIFIED PLAN, FOURTEENTH STREET ANDNEW YORK AVENUE. FIGS. 5 AND 6—SAME FOR FIFTEENTH STREET AND NEW YORK AVENUE vents. Traffic officers should endeavor always to keepthe near-side berths empty and the far-side berthsfilled by passing two or more cars on one indication ofthe traffic sign. As the use of the conduit system makesit necessary for cars to coast over intersecting tracksor other special work, cars in pairs cannot proceed soclose to each other as would otherwise be permissible. 6. Limited parking of automobiles. Between 8 a. 10 a. m. and between p. m. and p. m. auto-mobiles should be allowed to stop only long enough totake on and discharge passengers on Fourteenth Street,between H Street and New York Avenue, and on NewYork Avenue, between Fourteenth and FifteenthStreets. At other times a slightly longer stop may beallowed, but never more than fifteen minutes. Oth
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