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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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803,000 21.1 627,000 1,667,000 826,000 5-7 19.4 626,000 1,634,000 794,000 56 185 678,000 1,535,000 820,000 5 9 17 9 744,000 1,438,000 06 r,000 6.4 17 0 810,000 1,261,000 885,000 6.7 14.9 Per Car Mile 858,000 1,411,000 945,000 7-3 4 I 905,000 1,419,000 985,000 7-9 4.0 ^Includes Brooklyn Bridge Elevated Cars. Approximate. a maximum in 1893. The large decrease in passengers for1899 is explained by the operation of the Brooklyn Bridgeelevated line by the Brooklyn Elevated Company with afree transfer, thus eliminating from the enumeration thepassengers previously thus transferred. In a few in-stances in this and similar tables where reports have been * Includes Brooklyn Bridge Elevated line. practically double those per elevated car mile, which dem-onstrates clearly the profitable nature of the short-haulbusiness. From Table VII. it v^^ill be seen that the rides per capitafor all systems have more than doubled in the past twentyyears, so that in 1900 the total rides per capita are equiva-
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378 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVin. No. 14. lent tu a ride each week day of every man, woman andchild in the city. Table VUL shows that Brooklyn hasbeen overbuilt as compared with the rest of the city, theBronx even containing more population per mile of track.Five times as many car miles are operated per capita in1900 as in i860, as shown in Table IX., thus vastly in-creasing the popular convenience. FARES The great increases shown in these tables are due princi-pally to three causes—the extension in mileage, the added Table VII.Rides Per Capita Per Year. 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 Surface Lines 47 118 129 151 288 44 88 126 128 209 Bronx 36 42 42 138 11 34 84 Total 45 104 122 135 242 Elevated Lines 53 132 ICO Brooklyn 97 57 Total 33 111 75 45 104 155 246 317 conveniences in equipment and speed, and reduction in fare. In 1835 the stage fare from the City Hall to Harlem was 25 cents; in 1880, jn the Eighth Avenue line, 5 cents was Table VIII. Population Per Mile of Track. I860 mo 1

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