Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-16
NEAR SIDE STOP ORDINANCE
ECOMESEFFECTIVE JANUARY |
Tramway Company Prepares to Afford Every Con-
venience for 2OO,O 900 Patrons in Making the
Change for $500 Stops in the City

streets instead of the far side, begin
ming New Year Day, and this is the most
important part OF the new traffic ordi-
nance SO far as you and the Tramway
are concerned
"Opinion is divided as TO whether the
near-side stop is an improvement over
the far-side- Over half of the cities OF
the country have adopted the near-side
stop. There can be no denial of the va
lue OF having the same standard method
of stopping cars in Denver-with its
hundreds of thousands of tourists-as
exists in most other cities.
The near-side stop has been adopted
by the council now, so arguments either
for or against 1t are passe, and our i'm
mediate job is 10 put it into effect sue
cessfully.
Every man on the Tramway will en-
Enthusiastically jump into the work OF
making the near-side stop success and
Of personally enforcing every section OF
the ordinance relating 10 the operation
Of street cars. We're not going to be
content with merely making the near
side stop successful in the eyes OF those
who drafted the ordinance. II we have
II in Us, we're going 10 take that near
side stop-in spite OF local difficulties
that confront us-and turn it into 4
greater convenience TO our customers
and a more effective accident prevention
than any other city in the United States
has ever done. We're going to make it
into a service to street-car users that
will make a million visiting tourists ask
their own companies. when they get
back home, why they can't do thing
a. the Denver Tramway does them in
Denver
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Tramway cars will stop only on the near
side OF the street when there are pas
~engers TO board or alight. The import
anoo Of this change is great. 1t reverses
the present method OF stopping and
makes IL necessary for you to reverse,
overnight, your habit of going to the
far side OF the street 10 catch n cara
habit which you have formed thru all
the years You have lived in Denver.
Cars will always stop even with the
lot line downtown and on every paved
stree, in the city. good weather or bad
and even with the lot line on unraved
streets also in good weather.
But. when the weather has been bad,
80 that unpayed streets are muddy, then
the cars will stop in residence districts
only, with the entrance step at the
cross walk
TO stand exactly where the entrance of
the car viii be when the car stops.
The front of the car will be on line
with the lot and building line, and the
distance from there to the entrance step
il thirty-two feet-about ten or twelve
steps. The distance from the front end
Of tho fender 70 the entrance step Of the
trailer is seventy fcct-about thirty
steps, Remember these two facts and
YOU won't have TO hurry ten or fifteen
feet TO the entrance after tho car has
stopped.
"Thc near. side stop Is safety first
measure. but in Denver a great many OF
our customers and the travelling public
generally are likely To do three unsafe
things because of IL We would like TO
ask OF them. for their own safety, that
they
81. Never stand on the steps after
the car has made the near side stop and
Jump off as the car passes the far side.
80 Never try to Jump on the car that
passes them in case they can't get over
to the near side of the street before the
car starts-signal to the motorman TO
wait for YOU. instead
-. Never walk or drive in front of
car on the assumption that IL is going
TO come to n stop on the near side.
Every day we have reports of many
accidents which are caused by passengers
boarding or jumping off the cars before
they have stopped. Those that do II
seem TO think that they can do IL in
safety. and they can-until the day their
foot slips Unexpectedly. We have asked
our customers for so many years to
wait until the car stops before getting
on or off" that VIC could set IL TO music