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...townsmen who live in 2,300 communities without trolley cars or busses travel afoot on nearly all occasions...
Meanwhile the transit labor situation gets worse weekly. Never overpaid, trolley conductors and bus drivers are scampering off to war jobs in droves. In Washington a bus driver was in such a hurry to quit that he jerked to a stop at a traffic light, left a load of puzzled passengers stranded at the curb (TIME, Sept...
...trolley and bus-line operators are riding smack into the worst crisis in their history: a crush of new passengers, a crying need for new equipment, an acute labor shortage...
Transit men have partly solved their problem by reconditioning old trolley cars, jamming more passengers into every car and bus. They have other schemes too. In Kansas City, a staggered work-hour scheme is calculated to give the Kansas City Public Service Co. the equivalent of 42 new busses; Indianapolis Railways (controlling all local transportation) has slashed the number of stops 40% to 2,700, dropped or shortened seven feeder lines to boot. The Cleveland Transit System recently hitched 31-passenger trailers to regular busses. In Washington, transit bigwigs tested a new device: the "standsit" seat. Spaced...
...Profit. Only nice thing about the whole situation is that the trolley and busmen are making money-and making it fast. Despite higher taxes and wages, Philadelphia Transportation earned $1,133,000 in the year ended June 30 v. $713,000 last year; New York City Omnibus cleared $738,000 in the first six months against $630,000 a year ago. And the Midwest's Twin City Rapid Transit Co. is making money so fast (six months' profit: $373,000 v. $126,000) that its preferred stock last week soared 24 points to 73, more than three times...