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The Southern Israelite.
July 19, 1929
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The Southern Israelite., July 19, 1929, Image 20
Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by the Cuba Family Archives, William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum and Srochi family of Atlanta.
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Newspaper Page Text
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.
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