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It has; been suggestedsthat we run our interurban cars to Oak Ridge, making our lay overs at Cedar Falls instead of Waterloo and using the time consumed by these lay overs in running to Oak Ridge and back. Let us see. ‘Our dead time in Waterloo is twenty minutes, when the car arrives and departs exactly on the schedule, which is very seldom. In most cases the car is a few minutes late arriving, and in heavy traffic conditions these layovers have been designed to take care of the usual tardiness.dt is very important to the service; ;that these cars be kept as nearly their schedule as possible, and with the dead time, as isj.y i • . .. •..* ')']*. lt;*now effective, our percentage of accuracy is very high. If this dead time was taken away by some additional regular schedule the reliability of the interurban cars would be very materially reduced, and this would be another case of destroying good, reliableservice for the greatest number to possibly accomodate a scattering few.% rLet us go further. To ran our intemrbans to Oak Ridge would require the installation of some method of turning the cars at Oak Ridge, and the cheapest thing that could be put in would be a wye switch, and this would cost us completed about $ 1000.00. In addition to this we would be compelled to install a block system between Second and Main Streets and Second* iand Tremont Streets at an expense of $50.00. Also we would have to change the meeting point of the intemrbans to either' -Fosselman’s Siding,or Rownd’s Park Siding, and as it would be a physical impossibility to build a time card for the cars to meet at either of these points, and yet give to the Cedar Falls end ail of the dead time that is now used in Waterloo, it would take an* i ■ » . ’additional siding, at the right geographical location between the cities to do this, and such a siding would cost us about $500.00.• i * • •... * •’ Now, would it be consistent for us to spend $ 1500.00 or $2000.00 and change a schedule which has proven sof • • »satisfactory for a great many years in order to send these interurban cars, which weigh about 70,000 pounds “up the hill and down again,’5 and by so doing carry a fractional part or one passenger each trip? .We assure the citizens of Cedar'Falls'that we are glacl to receive suggestions, but we beg your indulgence long enough to dissect and analyize them. No, we would not care to do this. How many of you would, as a straight business proposition, man to man, might we inquire?©We ask for a “square deal”—nothing more.^ iTHE WATERLOO, CEDAR FALLS NORTHERN RY
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Cedar Falls Globe
Cedar Falls, Iowa, US
Thu, Feb 25, 1909
Page 2
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