BROOKLYN TRAMWAY MATTERS
♦ A new car, specially designed for the Brooklyn electric tramway line, is approaching completion in the municipal carshop at Newtown. The constructional woodwork is now complete, and the car has been transferred to the paintshop. Equipment for the undercar will arrive from abroad in a little while, and then the car will be made ready for use. It has been built in five compartments, two of which will be reserved for sniokers, and there will be comfortable accommodation for forty people in all. The distinguishing adjective is used advisedly, for there are cars running at present, licensed* to seat forty people, which cannot do so. The experiment made recently by the tramway officials, in running a five-min-ute service on the Brooklyn section during rush hours, has had a gratifying result. The cars are always well-filled, and the residents of the suburb are enabled to- reach home without the unavoidable delays which were occasioned under the ten minutes service that was the rule until very lately.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1909, Page 7
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168BROOKLYN TRAMWAY MATTERS Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1909, Page 7
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