. Electric railway journal . ognized as a very desirable and aneffective aid to the rapid handling of passengers onto acar. One very satisfactory development from the useof these loading platforms has been what might becalled automatic queue loading, as the comparativelynarrow platform, with chains or rails on its outer edge,by its very construction promotes the unconscious adop-tion of the queue form of loading. Plans were laid also for the installation of quite afew more platforms, but the Fire Department objectedto their being put down in the narrower streets, be-cause it felt that it would
. Electric railway journal . ognized as a very desirable and aneffective aid to the rapid handling of passengers onto acar. One very satisfactory development from the useof these loading platforms has been what might becalled automatic queue loading, as the comparativelynarrow platform, with chains or rails on its outer edge,by its very construction promotes the unconscious adop-tion of the queue form of loading. Plans were laid also for the installation of quite afew more platforms, but the Fire Department objectedto their being put down in the narrower streets, be-cause it felt that it would interfere with the opera-tion of fire apparatus. As a result of the Fire Departments objection the rail-way was unable to put platforms in at a number of loca-tions where a study of conditions at the present timeindicated their desirability and the Police Departmenthad requested their installation. The co-operation ofthe Police Department has been of great assistance insuccessfully working out the plan, and the results from. LOADING ON NORTH AVENUE AT CHARLES STIiEET 846 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 57, No. 19
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