. Electric railway journal . Single-Eyid Birney Car Used on Seattle Division The Paget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company Has SuccessfullyUsed Light-Weight All-Automatic Safety Cars on Its VariousDivisions for Supplementary Service and Better All-DayService—Public Has Responded with Larger Patronage. ITH increased cost of service anddecreased revenues, owing tohigher prices of material, sup-plies and labor on the one handand to automobile and jitney com-petition on the other, the electricrailway operator has generallybeen confronted with the problem of making bothends meet. Increased rates,
. Electric railway journal . Single-Eyid Birney Car Used on Seattle Division The Paget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company Has SuccessfullyUsed Light-Weight All-Automatic Safety Cars on Its VariousDivisions for Supplementary Service and Better All-DayService—Public Has Responded with Larger Patronage. ITH increased cost of service anddecreased revenues, owing tohigher prices of material, sup-plies and labor on the one handand to automobile and jitney com-petition on the other, the electricrailway operator has generallybeen confronted with the problem of making bothends meet. Increased rates, of course, would curethe condition. But increases sufficient to provideadequate income to insure all operating costs and afair return on the investment are not possible inall cases, at least not without placing an undesirableburden on the public. Hence the electric railwayoperator is applying his own genius and initiativein an effort to find the way out. The automobile has brought one thing home toelectric railway managers, , that greater speedand more frequent service with fewer stops arepopular. It is in that direction and in the opera-tion of light-weight extra-service cars that someoperators are now experimenting, using an all-automatic safety car with a single operator. Amongthose who
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