A TRANSPORT QUESTION.
MOTOR OR RAIL. ASSEMBLING RAILWAY FREIGHT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.' & NEW YORK, April 15. A telegram from Kansas City, Missouri, states that Mr. Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern Railway Co., in ah address before the American Society of Civil Engineers, declared that, tho automobile industry was so great that the railways gain more from the freight traffic it gives than they lose from tho freight and passenger traffic taken away.
Mr. Budd said the railways must realise that ’buses and trucks are as essential as railways in certain communities under certain conditions, because each unit of transportation is small and cheaper to operate. ’Buses can give more frequent service in rival communities than trains. Mr. Budd said there were about 2,500,000 motor trucks in the United States, whereof many are used by railways to assemble freight instead of using the engine, and instead of local freight- trains for short distance hauls. /
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 7
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