PASSENGER TRAFFIC IN NEW YORK.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1909, Page 10

PASSENGER TRAFFIC IN NEW YORK.

GREATER THAN THAT OF LONDON, PARIS, OR BERLIN. Having accepted the invitation of the State Commissioner of Agriculture to make an exhibit afc the State Fair, which opens in Syracuse (stated the New York Tribune on 13th September), the Public Service Commission placed in one of the buildings of the fair grounds n sefc of charts and statistical material. Tliese show the magnitude of the regulation problem which is before it in the field of transportation, gas, and electricity, as well as , the phenomenal growth of travel and tremendous increase in consumption of gas and electric current. The commission has also had printed a, pamphlet of sixteen pages, explaining its jurisdiction and work and covering some of the principal matters handled during the last two years. Statistics compiled by the commission show that the street and electric railways of New York City carried >n 1907 nearly 18 per cent, of tne fare passengers carried by all the street and electric railways of the United States, and moro passengers than are carried in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston put together. Compared with the three largest cities of Europe, New York City transported 40 per cent., greater London 26 per cent., greater Paris 19 per cent., and greater Berlin 15 per cent, of the total varried in the four cities, in the second year of the commission the number of accidents on the surface railroads of this city was reduced 30 per cent. In the consumption of coal and water gas New York City uses nearly four times as much as the rest of the State, and more than one-fifth of the total of the entire United States.