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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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lectric Rail- ways (the managing company) had its work cut outfor it. While the traffic increases or decreases for the warand demobilization period bear no particular relationto the principle of charging by distance, an analysisof the traffic carried by the different transportationmediums will reveal how well the underground lineshave developed long-distance riders, whereas the busesshow a preponderance of short riders, many of whomcome from or go to the stations of rapid transit linesand who use the surface vehicles to save themselves awalk of half a mile or less. As to the relation of fares to dwelling locations, itis, of course, quite impracticable to discuss the housingconditions of a world city in detail. One can stateonly in a broad, general way that the Englishman, ifhe can afford it, almost invariably prefers to live ina house by himself. The proportion of apartment housesin London is obviously smaller than it is in large <Si-.^ TO EASTCOTE, nuisLip, ICKENHAM,^ ^UXBKIOOE, ^
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MAP OP THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS SYSTEM February 7, 1920 Electric Railway Journal 277 American cities where a universal 5-cent fare hasprevailed for so many years. It is true that tens ofthousands of London houses ought to be destroyed andreplaced by sanitary and more comfortable dwellings,but few people place the blame for this condition on thecost of transportation. Despite the great augmentation of traffic hereinafterdetailed, the operating and schedule speeds have re-mained at the high level of pre-war days. The oldestsystem, the City & South London Railway, is the slow- Mansion House and 29.98 m.p.h. over the entire system.The following particulars on operations and fares aredue largely to the courtesy of the late W. E. Blake,superintendent of the Line Underground Railways, whodied not long ago from blood poisoning resulting from aslight accident on the line. The ideal headway which the company tries to main-tain for the greater part of the day is two and one-halfminute

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