Elements of Transportation - Hardcover

Johnson, Emory Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804613214 ISBN 13: 9780804613217

Publisher: Kennikat Press, 1972

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...Ownership Necessary.--From what has been said in this chapter, it is evident that the street-railway service when performed by private corporations must be carefully regulated by the public. Whether it is a better plan to have the service performed by carefully regulated public-service corporations, or to adopt municipal ownership and operation of street railways depends almost entirely upon whether the city government Philadelphia Subway. Tracks emerging from subway and rising to the elevated section. is or is not honest and efficient. Since 1890, two thirds of the street railways in Great Britain have been taken over by the cities, and the ratio of municipal to private undertakings has steadily increased. City ownership and operation work admirably in Great Britain where the city governments are carefully and wisely administered. In the United States, the universal policy is to charter corporations to perform the street-railway transportation services. Had it also been our policy from the start to regulate these public-service corporations carefully as regards their systems of accounting, their capitalization and financial methods, their charges and their services, the results would doubtless have been satisfactory. In most States, however, the practice has been to grant public-service corporations large powers and to provide for little effective control over their actions. In consequence of this Tmk Two-tk.u'k Sk, nox Ok The Fiu..auf.lphia £ mistaken practice, we have a serious si lem, the solution of which is yet to buj' States and municipalities. American System of pany desiring to build ai city applies to the Stj the charter it securf street railway is the State to impc street-railway companies and to permit the local governments to...

Edition details

• Publisher: Kennikat Press
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804613214
• ISBN 13: 9780804613217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360