. Electric railway journal . hanges made at the loop provided for threetracks instead of two, the new arrangement being asshown in the accompanying drawing. The inner loopremains as it was, the middle loop is a new track andthe outer loop is the original outer loop moved overcloser to the Belt Line Railway. Operation of thesteam line is not frequent enough to interfere seriouslywith the street cars. Sixteen cars can now stand onthe three loops as compared to nine, which was the limitof the old double loop. With sixteencars on the loopsthere is still space for 8-ft. and 12-ft. traffic lanesbetw
. Electric railway journal . hanges made at the loop provided for threetracks instead of two, the new arrangement being asshown in the accompanying drawing. The inner loopremains as it was, the middle loop is a new track andthe outer loop is the original outer loop moved overcloser to the Belt Line Railway. Operation of thesteam line is not frequent enough to interfere seriouslywith the street cars. Sixteen cars can now stand onthe three loops as compared to nine, which was the limitof the old double loop. With sixteencars on the loopsthere is still space for 8-ft. and 12-ft. traffic lanesbetween the standing cars so that access to the innerloops is provided. During the morning and evening rush hours about290 cars per hour now pass around the loops, 110 onthe inner track, eighty on the middle track and 100 onthe outer track. This is no faster than the rate atwhich the old loops were handling cars, but now theincreased standing capacity on the loops makes it pos-sible for cars to remain there long enough to afford. THERE ARE NOW THREE LOOPS IN FRONT OF THE MARKET STREET FERRY ample time for loading. Meantime the vehicular trafficalong the Embarcadero crosses the neck of the this is stopped a number of loaded cars are readyto leave the loops promptly as an equal number of carsenter. Loops Have Reserve CapacityThe capacity of the loops could be increased 20 percent over the figures above given, it is believed, wereit not for the fact that the cars cannot be operatedout of Market Street away from the ferry any fasterthan they are now being put around the loops. That is, Curb., )* ...C^y W/r ^\ \\ fMe MARKET ST. -&7> ; % ISpp 0 V? 50 75 100 2 | Dimensions in CirclesIgjl F not to Scale PLAN OF TRACKS AT FOOT OF MARKET STREET with 152 cars per hour going out on the outer MarketStreet tracks, there is a headway of only twenty-six andone quarter seconds. This is not sufficient to allowpassengers to get through to the inner tracks and aspassengers cannot saf
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