The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, July 19, 1929, Image 20
Street cars are delayed, sometimes through our own fault, sometimes by parades occupying the public streets, sometimes by fire hose across the tracks, sometimes by vehicles broken down on the roadway, sometimes by accidents and sometimes by the police holding the cars until the circus goes by, but most often by traffic. A passenger standing on the street corner in the outskirts of the town anxious to make his train or to be at his desk to hold his job, waits impatiently; the minutes lengthen out till each one seems an hour, and no car comes in sight. He cannot know r the reason why, so he frets and damns the old street railroad and wonders why somebody who knows how doesn’t run it. P. S. Arkwright It’s Not the Street Car You Delay; It's the People IN the Street Car Street cars are operated because 80 per cent of Atlanta’s citizens need street cars to bring them to town for business and shopping. Daily they carry over 275.000 passengers. Traffic delays do not hurt the street car. It’s the passengers—those 275,000—who are delayed. Their jobs are endangered. The businesses they serve are interfered with by delays. They come downtown less often to shop because of the traffic. You park your car along a busy curb, and you literally fence off a third of the right of way, and cut down by one-third the speed of travel making it slow going not only for the street car riders, but for your fellow motorists as well. Driving in your car, alone or with a friend or two, you “cut in" in front of a street car and ride the tracks. The street car must slow up and all of its passengers are delayed. Frequently the street car is unable to get to the car-stop because of automobiles on the track ahead, and so it fails to “make” a gTeen light. Repeated at corner after corner, the delay becomes five minutes, ten minutes, fif teen minutes—and forty people are late for work, because one person in a motor car was thoughtless. Practice the Golden Rule, and all traffic will move more smoothly and faster. Practice the Golden Rule for your own sake, and for the sake of your fellow citizens. Georgia POWER WpSJ'J COMPANY Buy Georgia Power Company $5 Preferred Stock CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE