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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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rue of the general mercantile situation is alsotrue of the street railway lines. Crowded though thecenter of the city is to-day with trolley and horse cars fol-lowing each other in rapid succes.sion, yet they are totallyinsufficient to carry the people. Perhaps this is due in agreat measure to the use of the Completo sign, displayedby the motorman of a car when all the seats are occupied, June i, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 949 no standing or strap-hanging being permitted. At thepresent moment there is an agitation on foot to abolishthis relic of horse car days, humane and proper at thattime, but out of place with up-to-date electric cars. Ifthis succeeds, it should increase the carrying capacity of to solve. It has not enough streets or surface cars to handleits population properly, and there is much talk of havingto build subways such as exist in New York, London andParis. The nature of the soil is such that this can beeasily done, as far as excavation is concerned, and the prob-
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^Irul Rij. Jvi.ri,iji MAP OF BUENOS-AIRES, SHOWING ALL TRAMWAY SYSTEMS, ALSO IROTOSED SUBWAY the present system by at least 20 per cent. Even thischange in practice would not suffice, and it is almost im-possible and unsafe to run cars on a shorter headway thanis now done in the business district. As can be seen bythe map, every street is taken up with a car line, the onlyexceptions being Calle Florida and the Avenida de Mayo,in the center or business part. Buenos-Aires is to-dayconfronted with the same problem that New York has had abilities are that it will be done in the near future. Thedotted lines on the map show the proposed route of one ofthese subways under the principal avenue of the city. Itwould connect one of the large railway stations with theport, making it easy for passengers coming in from thecountry to reach the steamers, and vice-versa, besides bring-ing the suburban towns of Flores, Liniers, Merlo, Itu-zaingo, and many others, into close comm-unication with 950 STRE

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