The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-12
PUBLIC ASKED
TO GIVE aid In
TRAFFIC SURVEY
Passengers VIII Be Quizzed On
Cars by Observers Employed
by Railway Board
WOODWARD PRESENTS
GREATEST PROBLEM
Travel Heavier Than On Amy
Other Street Of Same Length
In Country

The cooperation OF street car riders
on the Woodward-ave. line Is request
ed by the engineers engaged In max
ing survey Of the street railway
traffic for the city.
During next week, the engineers Of
the board Of street railway commits
sioners will have large force Of
men riding the Woodward cars u tc
observe conditions and collect facts
Two observers, wearing ofhcial
badges, will work together on. each
car. One will be stationed ut the
rear door, the other at the front Al
each passenger boards the car, he will
be handed q printed slip Of paper
ticket will be marked by the observes
to indicate the point at which the
passenger boards the car. AL that ID
necessary for the passenger to do ID
TO hand the slip back unfolded to the
observer at either door where he
leaves the car. The observer does
all the marking. At transfer points
on the line, such az the Forest and
Warren-ave. crosstowns. passengers
leaving the car may be asked II thoy
intend to transfer to another car and
what is their ultimate destination. II
will, Of course, be impossible to re
cord passengers carried on every Cal
operated on the line, but enough OBJ
servers will be employed and the OBJ
servati0ns spread over q suficient
period to determine definitely the rel
alive numbers OF passengers carried
on the various portions OF the line.
mo passenger, Of course, IL com
sires to do So" said Secretary Jay G.
Hayden, Of the street car board. THE
board. however, strongly requests
that passengers give the observers all
the information asked for. We wish
to emphasize the fact that this work
is being done for the ultimate benefit
OF the car riders themselves and for
the whole city Of Detroit, and that az.
sistance by passengers can only serve
to make more accurate the final find.
ing of the commission and thus result
In an Improvement of car service.
Notices will be posted In the street
cars indicating the desire of the com.
mission for information, during the
period that the observers are riding
the cars.
"Woodward-aye. presents an un
usual problem from the standpoint Of
street TRANSPORTATION. Records Of
passengers carried, taken from thu
d. u. r. books, and counts already
made for the city, indicate the start
ling fact that more passengers are
carried on this street than on any
other single street of similar length
in the United States, not excepting
the most crowded lines in New York
and Chicago. These records show
that approximately 100000 pas
sengers patronized the Woodward
cars In 1913. about one-sixth Of the
entire traffic Of the one-fare zone Of
Detroit.
Careful checks are now being
made In New York, Chicago and othei
cities, which have car lines that offer
opportunity for comparison, to deter
mine II this superiority Of Woodward
ave., in Detroit, Is as appears from
the totals Of passengers carried previ
ously secured, but the examination to
date IL sufficient to make certain that
woodward presents one Of the most