Author: Frederic W. Speirs

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-21

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9780484284257

Excerpt from The Street Railway System of Philadelphia, Its History and Present Condition During the past few years the public mind has been awak cuing to a realization Of the social and economic importance of the local transportation systems of great cities. Public Opinion is beginning to demand that in the administration Of such transportation systems the interests of the entire community rather than the promotion Of private ends shall be regarded. Some of the European cities have assumed the direct management of their street railways, while American cities have attempted various plans Of regulation and control Of the corporations which conduct their service. These recent experiments to reduce the cost of service and improve its character have-attracted much attention. But while there has been extended general discussion, there have been few comprehensive studies of particular systems in this country, and the discussion has thus suffered from the lack of exact knowledge regarding local conditions in American cities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.