. Electric railway journal . he, can he. think at all? He is not good enoughto hold your job. Keep off the tracks, pull up and let the car go by Save time, property, suffering,perhaps lite SAFETY FIRST 30 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLV, No. 1 track was an act of kindness rather than duty on thepart of the teamster. To the same end the Detroit United Traction Com-pany takes up from time to time with the police de-partment the question of diverting traffic from certainstreets to aid in the movement of cars, and motormenare instructed to take the numbers of vehicles whichcause delays. Complai
. Electric railway journal . he, can he. think at all? He is not good enoughto hold your job. Keep off the tracks, pull up and let the car go by Save time, property, suffering,perhaps lite SAFETY FIRST 30 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLV, No. 1 track was an act of kindness rather than duty on thepart of the teamster. To the same end the Detroit United Traction Com-pany takes up from time to time with the police de-partment the question of diverting traffic from certainstreets to aid in the movement of cars, and motormenare instructed to take the numbers of vehicles whichcause delays. Complaints are then made to the vehicleowners, and the experience has been that they takeprompt action to co-operate with the traction company. RELIEVING TRAFFIC CONGESTION The general question of traffic congestion is, ofcourse, influenced to a large degree by the length oftime over which the rush-hour traffic extends. Thisis especially noticeable in the case of lines having thetraffic from large factories, but notwithstanding the. PUBLIC-BE-PLEASED POLICY IN PRACTICE—LIMITED STOPSIGN ON BOSTON CAR attention that has been devoted to the possibility of es-tablishing variable factory closing hours, little successhas been attained in this regard. However, in Detroita novel scheme has been introduced for reducing con-gestion at the plant of the Ford Motor Company, where12,000 employees leave at the same hour. The DetroitUnited Railway sells seven tickets for 25 cents through-out the city of Detroit, and to avoid the necessity ofmaking change on the cars a ticket booth has been pro-vided within the grounds of the Ford factory near theexit, tickets being sold to the employees as they leaveat noon and night. It has been found that the salesaverage $75 daily, the Ford Motor Company havingposted notices in the plant requesting employees to pur-chase tickets before boarding the cars. The operatingdepartment of the traction company reports a great im-provement in maintaining schedules since t
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