The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-16
TRAFFIC SURVEY
MADE KNOWN
Continued From Page 10

cars IN outlying districts and auto
mobiles travel faster than any Of
the other means Of transportation
In the outlying and intermediate
districts.
More children walk to school
than ride on the street cars, but at
the end OF the day the street cars
gain la passengers about twenty
per cent. A large tltifnbeE Of pupils
il brought to school In private autos
and left to ride home on the cars
after classes
Baseball and amusement parks
and the theatere receive the major
ity OF their customers via the
automobile route
Accurate tabulations show that on
a weekday ~ per cent or the per-
sons going 10 the ball game ride
In machines, As per cent tise the
street cars and slightly more than
3 per cent walk. On Sunday, the
average OF automobile riders and
walkers increase, the street car com
pahies showing b. decrease.
Pleasure resorts and amusement
parks are also shown iii the report
with tabulatio1ls or the ways In
which people go to ana come from
these places.
Cars Increase 10 Beach
Nearly five times the number Of
automobiles are used In going to
Arlington Beach than street cars,
but on Sundays the number using
street railways increase. To Glen
Echo the check estimates about
the same number using street cars
is automobiles and to Great Falls
the number using street cars 10 far
In excess OF the number riding In
automobiles. At Chesapeake juno
ton, where trains are boarded for
Chesapeake Beach, the number Of
Atreet railway users ID much larger
number of people take the street
cars when they dismount at the
Union Station or other terminals
upon arrival here on an excursion.
thorough analyses Of the street
railway and motor bus traffic on all
the local transportation systems
were made to show the character
lstlcs OF the individual lihss.
Checkers were placed on the street
cars, buses and also on the. street
corners In making these Observa-
lions:
Observers reported that 4 total Of
B23,7le persons used the street cars
and bnsses In q day and the various
companies slightly enlarged on these
figures from their records.
Not all tbs passengers on the
street cars are what are termed
revenue passengers" the ratio rum
ming about IS per cent with the
revenue passengers on the BUSES
averaging about 96 per cent. This
means the percentage or paying pas
sehkers.
Average Car Rides
Average rides of the revenue pas.
sengers was shown to be 2.47 miles
2.93 on the Washington Railway
and Electric, and 2.46 on the Wash.
ihgton Rapid Transit busses. The
average mileage Of the total" pas
senEers, that Is including non-pay-
Ing passengers iH slightly more than
for revenue passengers. 4.
The Washington Railway and
Electric Company at the Intersection
OF Ninth and r streets northwest
daily receive 10,547 transfers. the
lafgest number or any Of their-tfans-
The Capital Traction Company
takes up i7,O79 transfers In one day
at the crossing OF Fourteenth and
u streets northwest.
Tnter-company transfer points are
also shown In the survey and II ap-
pears that the heaviest OF these
points Is at Eighteenth and Column.
bla road northwest, where 1880
1.,Aaa = k.aS
day.
Statistics obtained from the rail,
road companies terminating at
Washington reveal the fact that
1868, 942 communication tickets were
sold during the past year Buses
operating to Maryland from the
District record a daily passenger
list OF 1872 persons, and to Virginia
|2,912 passengers. About the sam.
number come into the District
every day aboard buses from
these States.
1901 Machines Parked
Tables pertaining to automobiles
in the District of Columbia show
that 7,O01 machines may be parked
at one time in the congested area.
This Is taking out space for fire
plugs and driveways.
Speed tests we're made by the
engineers showing that the best
time on any of the highways OF the
District can be made on Sixteenth
street, from Scott Circle to Alaska
avenue northwest, with Connect
cut avenue northwest running sec
ond in allowing speed maintenance.
Checks show that an average
speed OF 21.3 miles per hour on
Sixteent street and 21.2 miles Ger
hour on Connecticut avenue, from
Chevy Chase Circle to Dupont
Circle. Other streets on which
comparatively high speed may be
maintained are Connecticut avenue,
south of Dupont Circle; Wisconsin
and Massachusetts avenues and
Pennsylvania avenue. An avela age
speed OF slightly over 19 miles per
hour may be held on these streets.
The engineers then ascertained
the reasons for delays in maxine
these and other speed checks and
itemized the following: SERIOUS
interference with traffic-auton1o-
biles parked abreast on r and
Seventh streets northwest; pedes-
TRANS In the way on Pennsylvania
avenue east of Seventeenth street
between the curbing and car plat
forms and automobiles and trucks
parked between curbing and plat
forms"
Traffic ExceIs New York
Cordons of observers stationed at
forty eight points between Rock
Creek Park STRAIT norfhwast