'BUSES PREFERRED.
TUBES LESS POPULAR. Feb 22. Londoners are showing a preference for ’buses over tubes and trams. Lord Ashfield, chairman of the tube railway combine, with which the largest ’bus company is associated, directs attention to this new development, which is increasing the vehicular congestion in the streets.
The tubes, built at an enormous cost, are not fulfilling their natural function of relieving the congestion on the surface. The ’buses in 1923 carried 193.000,000 more passengers than in 1922. The tubes carried. 20,000,000 less, and the trams 3,000.000 lessLord Ashfield predicts a further increase in ’bus traffic in the summer owing to intensified competition. London traffic before the war averaged from eight to nine miles an hour It now averages from four to five, through the congestion. London’s traffic once the fastest in th© world, is now the slowest.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 80, 12 March 1924, Page 5
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140'BUSES PREFERRED. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 80, 12 March 1924, Page 5
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