Identifier: railroadgradecro00cali (find matches)
Title: Report on railroad grade crossing elimination and passenger and freight terminals in Los Angeles
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: California Public Utilities Commission
Subjects: Railroad crossings Railroad stations
Publisher: (Sacramento
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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local or five-cent fare passengers. The passengerrevenue was $7,500,000, and the freight revenue $2,350,000, or roughly one-third of the passenger revenue. The figures are especially noteworthy asindicating the importance of the freight business, both as a source of revenueand as an unusually prominent part of an electric roads business. The Southern Pacific Company controls, through stock ownership, thePacific Electric Railway and directs its policies. The Pacific Electric hasa considerable interest in the Los Angeles Union Terminal Company, asdiscussed in another chapter.Present Conditions The City of Los Angeles is fortunate in having this system of electricinterurban lines which has contributed so largely to its growth and develop-ment. A due appreciation of the importance of the Pacific Electric systemmay be had when it is stated that in 1917 this road carried 65,000,000 passen-gers, while in the same year the steam roads of the entire State of Californiacarried only 39,000,000.
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California Railroad Commission Engineering Dept. FIG. 17. PASSK\«KR TRAFFIC FLOW DIAGRAtl The wicitli of haiul represents tlie number of Internrban passengers oarvieil by the Pacilic Klectrlc Rail-way in both (lireetions during the vear 1917. Observe that the combined traffic from the Hill Street stationis greater than that of the Long Beach Line, showing the practicability of through routing. !(1S Ancici.ks Terminal l.wiiSTR.ATiox Recommendations in Arnold Report Mr. Arnold, in his rei)ort* to the City of Los Angeles on the localtransportation problem, after drawing attention to the broad constructivepolicy followed by the management producing the network of electric lineswhich bind together the ditterent communities of the district, draws atten-tion to the important part played by the Pacific Electric in the prosi)erityof this entire-section and advises that the continual growth ..I this inter-urban system should not be hampered. He stated that there were promising possibilities in

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