Identifier: electricrailway481916newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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serve to illustrate the point. Thetrue salesman, however, while realizing the magnitudeof the job before him, will not be intimidated thereby,and fortunate is the railway whose management con-tains such. There is another side to this matter, however—onewhich furnishes encouragement. Urban transportationis one of the most conspicuous and most intimate ele-ments of community life. Our cars are constantly com-ing and going and provide a considerable advertisementin so doing. A great deal of riding will be done simplybecause the cars are there even if the service is poor andthe management apathetic. There is thus a good founda-tion to work upon. Deep down in its heart the publicappreciates how necessary the railways are to the com-munity in which the lines operate, and this passiveappreciation can be roused into active sympathy whenoccasion demands. All of these things and many othersmake it possible to sell more transportation, and thatat a higher price than the present, if necessary.
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July 29, 1916) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 173 Rerouteing a Traffic ofNine Cars a Minute How the Public Service Railway Solved the Problem of HandlingTraffic of Exceptional Density by Means of the New Terminal in Newark By H. C. DONECKER Assistant General Manager Public Service Railway THE recent opening of the Public Service Terminalin the city of Newark, N. J., marked the culminationof plans which had been in process of developmentsince 1913, designed to overcome the extreme congestionin the heart of that city. The whole terminal scheme in-volved not only the construction of the magnificentbuilding recently thrown open to the public, but requiredalso the installation of extensive track connections forwhich a total of twenty-nine franchises were secured,these covering approximately 10 miles of track andthirty special work layouts. A Busy Traffic Center Broad and Market Streets, the business center of thecity, is reputed to be the second busiest corner in thecountry. So far as the street

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