BUS IN MOUNTAINS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 19

BUS IN MOUNTAINS

NEW LIFK FOX PEASANTS Life is being mail'l easier for the 'Austrian peasants living'in the valleys and on the liigli Alpine Mountains of the Province of Slyriu 11) rough the rapid development of motor-bus lines, a network of more tlian 100 lines already has made accessible almost every hamlet and village in St.yrin, including some located 0000 feet above sea, level. The «">nomic life of Gin/., the capital, has bren favour.-)b!v affected by. frequent visits of country folk,, formerly, rarely neon there, awl the peasants them.selves arc profiting by the facility with winch they can now iind buyers for their products. . i Although the motor-ljus business began in earnest in Styria only in 1026. it has grown so fast that the older lines arc clamouring for protection against unfair competition by a host of concession cockers, and the rrovinei.il Government has been obliged to call a conference of the interested parties for the purpose of working ouL regulations calculated to bring order out of chaos. It is pointed out that flic extension of the motor-bus lines is solving the problem of building railways in the upper ranges of the mountains by making them unnecessary. /