The Street railway journal (1903) (14574754099)
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Identifier: streetrailwayjo211903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries
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Crops Section of Subway. ATLANTIC AVENUE IMPROVEMENT drawing to them the natural increase that otherwise wouldnaturally have gone to the Long Island Railroad. In 1899, by virtue of an arrangement with the BrooklynRapid Transit Company, the Long Island Railroad com-menced to operate its Jamaica express trains over the Brook-lyn Elevated structure from the incline at Flatbush Avenueand Atlantic Avenue to the Brooklyn Bridge, thus making
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W ILLIA^lSIURC. m^lDCK, VHO^l IiRii( )KT.YN In 1898 the management of the Long Island Railroad in-augurated the policy of providing a train and car service con-siderably in excess of the actual traffic requirements for thepurpose of inviting an increased passenger business. Thispolicy has been carried out in a generous spirit during the suc-ceeding years, and the results are reflected in a steady gain inpassenger traffic. l-.l.KVATED RAILWAY STRUCTURE—APPROACH TO WILLIAMS-BURG BRIDGE, BROOKLYN SIDE direct through service between Jamaica and the BrooklynBridge. As tending still further to illustrate the existing conditionsof passenger traffic Table No. XIV is presented. It shows,among other things, that each passenger was carried an aver-age distance in 1902 of 14.49 miles, and that the averageamount received from each passenger was 20.5 cents.
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