Electric railway journal (1917) (14758990814)

Identifier: electricrailway501917newy (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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w terminal is the focus of nineteen lines whosetime-card intervals range from ten minutes on the Pasa-dena Short Line to two hours on the San BernardinoLine. While these routes carry a large proportion oftourist traffic, those nearer Los Angeles enjoy a heavycommuting service. On some lines the commuters are distributed in the business district so that theydo not ride into the terminal except on the outgo-ing trip. For their further convenience, the com-muters on busy lines like that to Pasadena may enteroutbound trains within the distributing zone on pres-entation of a round-trip ticket; otherwise a 5-cent faremust be paid for the ride to the terminal. By thisplan a portion of regular traffic has no incentive tocause congestion at the terminal itself. Furthermore,the Pasadena trains, and trains of similar lines, arerun through the terminal on loop tracks as hereinafterdescribed. Broadly speaking, the objects of the present terminal,which is an enlargement of the original space in the
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PACIFIC ELECTRIC TERMINAL VIEW SHOWING THREE-INDICATION LIGHT SIGNAL PACIFIC ELECTRIC TERMINAL—TYPICAL SOLID-MANGANESESPECIAL WORK 308 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (Vol. 50, No. 8 Pacific Electric Building, were threefold: To cut in half or elimi-nate entirely interurban train movements over Main Street; to in-crease the trackage capacity of the terminal; and to increase thespeed and safety of passenger interchange by discharging passen-gers on one platform and receiving them on another platform atthe opposite side of the car. The last-named object is certainly accomplished in a splendidway, the platforms, ramps, subways and viaducts being laid out inthe simplest possible manner. For example, all exits converge toone main exit which faces the street. Each discharge platform isalso marked with a large direction arrow and Exit in mosaic sothat strangers will not leave the wrong way. The up-ramps are 12per cent and the down-ramps 20 per cent, mastic paving beingused on the latter to secure