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RAPID GROWTH

Bus Transportation v. Railways While people the world over are. buying automobiles for, their per-.; soiial use m larger quantities than ever before, they are also buying bus transportation m such vastly r increasing proportions that this is • becoming a leading public transport business. THERE are 250,000 miles of railway * lines m the United States with a total investment, m capital stock and ' bond issues, of nearly 7,000,000,000 dollars. ■ Yet while the railway mileage is onethird that of the bus routes m the country,- the total investment m rails is more than twelve times as great. /With such a vast system of 719,000 miles of bus routes, the people of America have shown, themselves to be a vast transient populace. America's 23,000,000' mptor-cara are not enough, it seems. :Even the increasing bus systems are too few to accommodate the travellers. For this year statisticians predict an increase m registration of at least another million new motorists, while the several thousand more buses will: continue to be packed full. . . .■■■' . - The railways will not, lose their : clientele, for* people will; keep on travelling long distances by raij. The buses will have their share of transportation m the short haul. ..;. , ; And then, .will come ••.the; airways. Although not , so far . advanced -asEurope m this branch .of .tran.sporta-. tlpii, slowly and with safety, the airlines are breaking into passenger trade. Always remember that the car. on your, right has the right of way. This rule applies equally *to highways and byways, arid' will save a deal of trouble arid expense. .' ' •

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NZ Truth, Issue 1228, 13 June 1929, Page 19

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RAPID GROWTH NZ Truth, Issue 1228, 13 June 1929, Page 19

RAPID GROWTH NZ Truth, Issue 1228, 13 June 1929, Page 19