CITY TRAMS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 43, 19 February 1918, Page 8

CITY TRAMS

REVENUE ■ RETURNS.

The city tramway returns for the four weeks ending 2nd February last show an increase in the revenue of £516 j as compared with, the same month last year, while the credit balance reveals a, decrease of £742. The figures are as

233,919 *1,567 ■"Decrease. In the- Teturns for forty weeks from Ist April, 1917, to 2nd February, 1918, it is shown that revenue increased, but not in the same ratio .as expenses, and though there is a good credit balance it is not, so great as last year. The figures are : —

1918. Inc. Revenue £18,555 '£516 Working expenses ! £12,007 '£1213 Special expenditure £485 . *£10 Capital charges '£3409 ■. £50 Cr. balance : *£2654 *£742 Revenue per car mile 19.03 d■* .654 Working expenses • , •■ per car mile 12.31 d 1.316! Percentage of working expenses to revenue ... 65 p.c. 6 p.c. Passengers carried 2,746,133 38,885 Car miles .run ... 233,919 *1,567

Revenue £181,770 £8,117 Working expenses £130,366 £10,796 Special expenditure .: £4,836 *£609 Capital charges £37,742 £848 Cv. balance £8,826 *£2,918 Revenue per car mile 17.36 d 1.21 d Working expenses per car mile ... 12.45 d 1.33 d Percentage of working expenses to revenue ... 72 p.c. 3p;c. Passengers carried 27,588,210 ,683,872 Car miles run ... 2,512,404 *67,482 -^Decrease.