TRAMWAY REVENUE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 416, 27 January 1909, Page 9

TRAMWAY REVENUE.

V.; : ;.' ..: A GENERAL DECREASE. A general decrease has been; observed in the tramway revenue during the past yealv 'I'he latest report of 'the ..engineer (Mr. Stuart Richardson) states that tho number of passengers i.'chrried was 1,741,923, as' compared | With. 1,746,712. for the .previous year. There was a decrease of .98d. m tho traffic revenue from .city "lines' per car mile.' Tlio total'revenue per car mile forthis, year's peftbdwas 15.35d:asJcompared: \vithll6v27d. for-.tlie prer. vious. yearr-ft. decrease of .92d. '■ The total ' working expenses increased .'.3Bd;,;' the traffic txporises per, car:' milo increased ,12d. • repairs and maintenance went up ifedii.nnd .tho'. power. expenses .increased ;03d. . per car 'mile; while general expenses,' compared ' With the previous year,: decreased .42d. A falling, off took .place,- on all but two routes—K ilbirnio "hd Brooklyn; ' The increase oh tlio.. former line. was .very .marked;: 33,272 nioro passengers being cirried; and there was an increase' of 9107 passengers on the Btooklyn section.'.The revenue oh. the ICilbirnie line increased to tile extent, or £127 Os. Bcl,, and on Brooklyn cars by £50 12s. lljd. Oil the Newtown-section : tho decline was considerable—l3,os4 passengers—but almost as marked decreases were noted Sri the other routes, the figures for which are:—lsland Bay, decrease of 9016: Oriental Bay;.■'.decrease'of'" 9277y Constable Street, decrease .of. 4650;, Aro Street, " decrease of ,4283; Wallace Street, decreaso 'of 336. • • '• . . '