. Engineering and Contracting . ting franchises. Iis=hed by observation that it is fair and sate to anticipate 6. Net investment in superseded property. these results in preliminary estimates. (116) Engineering and Contracting for May 19,1920. 563 Relation of Railway Terminal Prob-lem to City Planning An entire session of the 12th National Conference on CityPlanning, held last month at Cincinnati, O., was devoted tothe relation of railroad terminals to the city plan. At thesession a committee report was presented which brings outimportant features of this phase of city planning. The reportcons
. Engineering and Contracting . ting franchises. Iis=hed by observation that it is fair and sate to anticipate 6. Net investment in superseded property. these results in preliminary estimates. (116) Engineering and Contracting for May 19,1920. 563 Relation of Railway Terminal Prob-lem to City Planning An entire session of the 12th National Conference on CityPlanning, held last month at Cincinnati, O., was devoted tothe relation of railroad terminals to the city plan. At thesession a committee report was presented which brings outimportant features of this phase of city planning. The reportconsisted principally of a discussion by William J. Wilgus,Consulting Engineer, New York City. This portion of the re-port is abstracted below: The railroad terminal problem may be said to embracethree separate and distinct phases: that having to do withpassenger and freight traffic destined for local distribution;that dealing with direct movements to and from local indus-tries and other facilities having their own side tracks; and. Fig. 1—Arrangement for Inter-connection of Two or More Pas-senger Terminals by Urban Rapid Transit Lines. that having to do with the interchange of traffic destined forpoints beyond. In discussing the first of these phases, which has to do withthe local distribution of freight and passenger traffic, it shouldbe borne in mind that the railroad terminal is not such inthe sense that the movement of either freight or passengersthere terminates. The terminal is merely a step in the jour-ney between the point of origin and that of final destination,where the passengers or freight are transferred from onemeans of transportation to another. Stated differently, theterminal is to be considered as a means of transition fromone transportation agency to another. It is a terminal onlyfor the vehicles employed in effecting a portion of the journeyof their contents. The passenger, on arrival at the terminal,alights from his train and continues therefrom by vehicle or
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