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1946: Public Transit Scores a Touchdown

As Passenger Transport celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding, we will feature short articles summarizing some of the important news, people and events from past issues.


This photo from the Dec. 13, 1946 Passenger Transport is the publication’s very first story depicting throngs of football fans queueing up for a bus ride home.

Here’s what editor William U. Taylor had to say about these Notre Dame fans and the innovative way the transit system in South Bend, IN, got them all boarded in record time:

“To facilitate moving the crowds, Northern Indiana Transit, Inc., has devised a system making it possible to transport between 10,000 and 15,000 fans in 30 to 40 minutes. All passengers must first pass through turnstiles, where they pay their fare, into an enclosed lot where buses are parked.

“With both doors thrown open,” the photo caption continued, “buses are fully loaded in about one minute. W.W. Waterson, general superintendent, estimates that this makes it possible to handle the crowds 15 times faster than the job could be done if all were to pay their fares aboard the bus.”

To see how ­Houston METRO and MBTA handled this year’s enormous Super Bowl crowds, see the story and photos in this issue.
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