Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — Why Passengers Stand. [ARTICLE]

Why Passengers Stand.

President Vreeland, of the Metropolitan street railroad of New York city, tells why New Yorkers must stand up in.the street cars or go afoot at certain hours of the day. “The overcrowding of cars,” he says, “isdue to the peculiar geographical formation of Manhattan. Travel in the rush hours is all in one direction. It is an actual fact that if every lineal foot of track in this city was filled with cars placed bumper to bumper their seating capacity would not accommodate two-thirds of the people who wish to travel up-town between five and six o’clock at night.”