. Electric railway journal . , John W. Shartelvice-president and general manager Oklahoma Rail-way, discussed transportation and traffic from jitneysto freight. Where the Jitney Never Had a Chance Oklahoma City, it may be pointed out, is one of thefew places where the jitney never had a chance. Withthe first California rumblings, the management kept itsear to the ground. Every development was carefullywatched so that by the time the jitney earthquake Mr. Shartel, was the private automobile. With its 150miles of wide asphalt-paved streets, including numerousboulevards and pleasure drives, Oklah
. Electric railway journal . , John W. Shartelvice-president and general manager Oklahoma Rail-way, discussed transportation and traffic from jitneysto freight. Where the Jitney Never Had a Chance Oklahoma City, it may be pointed out, is one of thefew places where the jitney never had a chance. Withthe first California rumblings, the management kept itsear to the ground. Every development was carefullywatched so that by the time the jitney earthquake Mr. Shartel, was the private automobile. With its 150miles of wide asphalt-paved streets, including numerousboulevards and pleasure drives, Oklahoma City was un-excelled for the autoist. In fact, there was one machinefor every twenty inhabitants. Because Oklahoma is growing at the rate of 8000 to10,000 people a year, the effect of the private auto-mobile is not reflected in the gross earnings, but it isplain enough in the per capita earnings, which havefallen from $ to $ a year. Roughly speaking,this is equivalent to 20 per cent of the companys TWO VIEWS OF RIGHT-OF-WAY IN STREETS OF OKLAHOMA CITY reached Oklahoma it found progress effectually barredby an ordinance which has since served as a model forscores of other cities. It had many provisions, but theone that was most effective was a clause which forbadeoperation over streets already served by electric rail-ways. When asked for the inside history which led up tothis ordinance, Mr. Shartel said that it was largely con-tinuous publicity. Day in and day out the company toldthe public through the newspapers and otherwise whatharm the jitneys were working elsewhere in terms oftransportation, accidents, damage to roadways, moral-ity, etc. This campaign, being carried on before thecreation of any large element interested in jitneysproved extremely effective. Not more than half a dozenoperators even tried to see what they could do—a factwhich Mr. Shartel rather regrets, as a longer experiencewould have shown just how far jitneys could cut intostre
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