Transit facilities also experienced significant wear and tear during the war from extended use and deferred maintenance. This resulted in a deterioration in transit's physical plant by war's end.

Transit facilities also experienced significant wear and tear during the war from extended use and deferred maintenance.
⑤また、公共交通施設は、戦時中の過度な使用と保守の先送りにより、著しく損耗していた。

This resulted in a deterioration in transit's physical plant by war's end.
⑥これが（その結果）、戦争終結時には公共交通の設備が著しく劣化していた。

Pent-up wage demands of transit employees were met，causing nearly a 50 percent increase in average fares by 1950. This further contributed to a decline in ridership. These factors combined to cause serious financia1 problems for many transit companies (Transportation Research Board, 1987).

Pent-up wage demands of transit employees were met, causing nearly a 50 percent increase in average fares by 1950.
⑦(これまで)見送りされてきた公共交通従業員の賃上げにより、1950年、平均運賃は50％も上昇した。

This further contributed to a decline in ridership.
⑧これがさらに、乗客の減少を招いた。

These factors combined to cause serious financia1 problems for many transit companies (Transportation Research Board, 1987).
⑨こうした要因が、多くの公共交通会社に深刻な財政問題を引き起こした。(TRB, 1987)