CITY TRAMWAY TRAFFIC. A FOUR-WEEKLY RETURN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1908, Page 2

CITY TRAMWAY TRAFFIC. A FOUR-WEEKLY RETURN.

Traffio returns from tho Wellington City tramways for tho four wooks ended 2nd February last arc now available for publication. Tho receipts total £10,950, which is an increase of £2371 by comparison with the corresponding period of last year. Working expenses increased by £1592 (from £4867 to £6460). The excess of revenue over working expenses amounts to £778. Tho power expenses pe,r car mile for tho four woeks wcro 1.23 d, being a decrease of .23d, and tho general expenses werq .46d against .50d in the corresponding period of 1907. • Tho total working expenses per car mils woro 9.03 d for 1908, 8.59 d for 1907, an increase of ,44d. Tho ooxerse r s of revenuo over working exponfle9 per car milo wai 6.42 d for 1908, 6.74 d for 1907, a decroa/o of .2Sd. Tho total revci.uo per car miie for 1908 was 15.45 d, for the four-wecklj period in 1907, 15.33 d, an increase per car milo of .19d. Tho total passengers carried on the various routes for the four weeks ended 2nd February were a 6 follow: — Passengers Revenue £ s d Island Bay ... 1908 266,061 2022 15 9 " ... 1907 255,103 1939 13 0 Nowtown ... 1908 540,527 2929 8 2 . ... 1907 506,739 2749 16 11 Oriental Bay ... 1908 176,508 918 011 ... 1907 132,529 816 0 0 Constable-st. ... 1908 165,679 879 5 3 ... 1907 206,741 1111 10 2 Wallace-st. ... 1908 110,164 535 16 9 ... 1907 105,696 522 13 6 Aro-stract ... 1908 89,129 445 9 7 ... 3907 79,007 — Brooklyn ... 1908 105,850 597 610 ' y ... 1907 90,903 503 0 2 Kilbirnio ... 1908 247,327 1567 4 9 ... 1907 37,021 188 19 2 Totals ... 1908 1,701,245 9695 8 2 1907 1,433,8C4 8215 1 3 To the above had to bo added in 1908 25.618 return ticket?, and in 1907 23,693, Tho actual revenue for 1908 (four weeks) was £9897 14s Bd, and for ]907 £8215 7a 9d. Tho inoroased passengers carried in tho last petiod > over that of 1907 was 269,946, and the increase in rfvenne wa= £1682 6a lid. Tho flay showing tho greatest passenger traffic rotuniß in the four weeks was Saturday Ist February — 80,322, yielding a revenue of £456 Is Bid. Tho car miles run on city lines during the four-weekly period under review were 156,501, being an increase of 24,304 miles, and the pafsengers carried on city lines totalled 1,727,747, which was an increaso of 269,946 over tho totals for the four weeks in the preceding^ year.