USE OF BUSES IN U.S.A.

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6667, 21 July 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

USE OF BUSES IN U.S.A.

BIG . FIGURES QUOTED Facts that strikingly indicate the tendency . toward more mobile traflic over long distances have been supplied by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. New York City. Theso figures show that there were over 270,000 miles of common carrier bus routes covered by 80,000 buses in the United States in 1927. In many States buses, now run regu- , larly between points having no rail connection. Large areas of various States depend mainly for contact with the outside world upon their bus. systems. It is significant of the transportation trend that bus service in very small towns is much more frequent than rail service in towns many times as large. The greater mobility, flexibility and cheapness of small-unit transportation have made this increased service possible. The country’s railroads have been among the first groups to recognise the value of bus, transportation. To-day more than 60 railroad companies In U.S.A. use buses, either directly or through subsidiaries. These buses are used on routes substituted for branch lines, on roads paralleling rail lines, or on,, new feeder routes. In addition to this heavy bus use by steam railways, 266 electric railways are now using buses, J