. Electric railway journal . and all otherarticles of every-day consumption. Department stores inother cities are now loading their motor trucks for deliveryto substations by means of racks on what may be termedthe cartridge principle, thus saving time at both ends of theline, and this same idea could be used to advantage for asimilar service on the local car lines. The street car companies use their own tracks for thedelivery of construction material for their own use and per annum. This is more than in most other cities of thesame size. It continues: The present city problem, so far as conce
. Electric railway journal . and all otherarticles of every-day consumption. Department stores inother cities are now loading their motor trucks for deliveryto substations by means of racks on what may be termedthe cartridge principle, thus saving time at both ends of theline, and this same idea could be used to advantage for asimilar service on the local car lines. The street car companies use their own tracks for thedelivery of construction material for their own use and per annum. This is more than in most other cities of thesame size. It continues: The present city problem, so far as concerns transit re-quirements, is to do away with the present and future con-gestion in the business district; to reach a better under-standing with the city in regard to future extensions, in-cluding the building of crosstown and outside circuit lines,and to provide a better pavement between and contiguousto the rails. The surface system is singularly lacking in crosstownand circuit lines, particularly inside the 4-mile Los Angeles Report—Maps Showing Territory Annexed to City and Time-Zones from the Corner of Sixth and Main Streets thus secure a considerable saving. The same class ofequipment which they use for this purpose could be used toequal advantage for the delivery of materials for streetwork and paving—and if the contractors on this kind ofcity work had the privilege of using the local street cartracks for carload delivery the city itself would get thebenefit of the economy. LOCAL STREET RAILWAYS The report points out that the city system, now con-trolled by H. E. Huntington, is equipped with a narrow gageand the number of rides approximates nearly 365 per capita Radiating lines have been provided with liberality and ex-tensions into the non-paying outlying districts have beenbuilt even when the long haul and the small amount of busi-ness could mean nothing but loss to the company, but thecross-connecting lines which are usually considered asdesirable parts o
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