. Electric railway journal . d with the above estimate of cents. The saving in tie renewals is based on only 12 percent of the actual cost of 7,000 ties per year at $ With the light-weight car, however, the tractioncompany is now spacing ties at 3-ft. centers, as com-pared to 2-ft. formerly. This means that eventually thetie renewals will actually be reduced about 40 per cent,although this latter figure will not be reached for somethree or four years to come. This saving is not theo- retical. It has actually been determined from resultsobtained by the Union Traction Company, Nashv
. Electric railway journal . d with the above estimate of cents. The saving in tie renewals is based on only 12 percent of the actual cost of 7,000 ties per year at $ With the light-weight car, however, the tractioncompany is now spacing ties at 3-ft. centers, as com-pared to 2-ft. formerly. This means that eventually thetie renewals will actually be reduced about 40 per cent,although this latter figure will not be reached for somethree or four years to come. This saving is not theo- retical. It has actually been determined from resultsobtained by the Union Traction Company, Nashville,Tenn., which has operated similar weight cars for aboutfifteen months, and the Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg &Aurora Traction Company, Cincinnati, which has oper-ated them for three years. Fare Collection Method The collection of fares at first seemed rather com-plicated, but has really worked out very are twenty-two zones, some of which overlap, andit seemed quite a task to work out a plan where one. ARCH-BAR TRUCKS USED ON LIGHT-WEIGHT, ONE-MAN interurban cars man could handle the situation promptly and system adopted is as follows: A standard Cleveland fare box is used and all faresare collected pay-as-you-enter. The passenger depositshis fare, either cash, regular ticket or commutationticket, in the fare box and is presented with an identi-fication ticket (hat check), bearing the number of thezone to which he is entitled to ride. Upon reachinghis destination he deposits this identification ticket inthe box. Should the zone in which the passenger isalighting not correspond with the number on the ticketthe operator calls his attention to this and requests anyadditional fare that may be due. The zones are numbered from 1 to 22 from theMadisonville end toward Blanchester, and these num-bers are the same, regardless of the direction the caris going. The identification ticket is 2 in. long x 2 in. wide,with a large zone number printed on both
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