The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
INDIANAPOLIS STREET CARS.
Comparison with Service I'm n City OF
Greater Population.
Minneapolis Journal.

Minneapolis Journal
In Indianapolis. during the busy hour.
cars on certain lines are operated at in
tervals OF a minute and half In Mime
apolis, during the busy hour. three
minute service is the best TO be had on any
line in the city.
In Indianapolis, during the day. the long
est interval between cars on other than
suburban lines, is eight minutes. In Min
neapolis, during the day, the longest inter-
val between cars on other than suburban
lines, is fifteen minutes.
Indianapolis has population OF l69, l64,
according TO the last census; while the fig
ures for Minneapolis are 202,7lS. Indianap-
oils, with 80, 900 less population than Min
neapolis, has a Street-car service that COM
pares very favorably with that provided
patrons of the cars in this city. In fact,
despite the fact that the Minneapolis lines
carry many thousands more people annual
liz than do the Indianapolis cars, the time
schedule for Indianapolis is much better
than that in vogue here.
In Indianapolis cars are run on reSiden-
tiaI lines during the morning and after
noon hours at intervals Of not more than
eight minutes In most cases the head
way" or time between cars, is over five
and under eight minutes. on the Como
line, in this city, the Roadway" during
these same hours is fifteen minutes, as IL
is also on the Bryn Mawr, Eighth and
Central, Fourth avenue ) and Sixth ave-
nue. y, Minnehaha, Washburn Park and
Camden, Nicollet and Twentieth avenue ~
and Riverside lines. The Monroe and Lyn-
has the Plymouth and Bloomington. the
Cedar and Emerson and others. The head
way on the Western and Second street Sc
line is twelve minutes. There Is not a line
in the city which operates cars every eight
minutes or oftener during the hours men,
toned.
In indianapolis the interurban lines are
run eight-minute schedule during
the rush hours. In Minneapolis inter-
Urbans are four minutes apart at the
same time. The usual rush service on
Indianapolis lines is a five-minute serv-
ice. In Minneapolis IL is seven and
one-hah minutes. Several Indianapolis
lines give a three-minute service during
the busy hours. In Minneapolis a three
minute service Is given between 40
and $40 p. over the First-aNenue
tracks. However, three lines use these
tracks, the cars alternating. This Is the
only local route over which a three
minute service Is sent In Indianapolis
the Roadway on one or two lines during
tie busy hours II minute and a half.
Here the least Roadway scheduled is three
minutes.
The Indianapolis system like that In
Minneapolis. is equipped with both large
and small ears. the former seating nifty
TWO and the latter thirty-slN passengers.
usually badly crowded during both the
morning and evening rushes and the large
cars habitually carry as high as 100
| passengers while seventy crowd into the
small cars. Riding on the bumper" 10
said TO be a favorite indianapolis pas
time. Here in Minneapolis people have
| been known 10 contract the bumper
habit although the new type Of cars has
done away with that 10 a great extent.
indianapolis has a suburban line 10 Broad
/ Ripple. popular summer resort, nine miles
out OF town, and during the season this
| line provides a half-hour service on week
| DAYS with fifteen-minute service SUNDAYS.
During the winter cars are run at inter-
| walls OF one hour.