1930-01-11 — Page 16

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

COULD YOU GIVE UP DRIVING?

[By LS. Gladman.]

For years I have never heard of difference to any motorist, from unyònə giving up motoring once van-boy to Cabinet Minister, is fbey have taken to it, but within absolutely lacking in intelligence. solitary a past few weeks I have come Not one of us for one iCross two ratances. Both of second is ever kept in check by those back-sliders boast about it fear of the speed limit; we are In the Press, and both have be- checked by common sense, regardl or less rabid anti- for others, regard for ourselves, &c., but not by a stupid and One's first impulse is to dismiss archule speed limit. And, on the the other hand, he who wants to act much cases with contempt; World Is full of odd people. But like a hound will act like'u hound, at second thoughts one begins in speed limit or no speed limit. So become interested und, possibly the poor old limit is a wash-out

frous of getting at the cause either way,

cama more motorista.

of what seams to mast of us it is, therefore, lack of intelli-.

ability to size a motorlata a very unusual state of gence, and an wind.

stuntion up that makes people One of these slefaulters says regard the 20-mile limit as some that he has given up moturing bathing approaching diving, and he cause of the shocklugly bad driv- who thinks on these lines will jpg of his companions of the road probably act in us stupid a way and his disgust at the way they at the wheel of a car. behave. He now champlons the

use of the non-motoring-section of the public by villifying motorists at every possible 'oppr Junity.

The second

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Utility and Sentiment,

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SATURDAY. JANUARY 11, 1930.

NINETY-SIX PASSENGER MOTOR BUS.

COACH

PARLOR

OBSERVATION

What modern motor bus transportation has come to a coach that includes all the ac commodations of a train-coach, parlor, pullman, observation and smoking cars. This coach "is built for 96 passengers and also have lavatory equipment, radiators in the parlor compart-

to

come

ment and other service features.

num-years.

Exceeds Rail Mileagė.

this

are now op-

All this leads us to the question Could you give it up? I doubt

,crease from 1922 to 1929 amount traveller may change from coach [By Israel Klein:] if one in a thousand could give uji

ed to 1,874,000,000 passengers, to train for overnight travel, or notoring except under very

Bus transportation in the Unit-or 197 per cent, over the passen- from coach to plane at various

of the previous five pointe hlong the route. on the list says serious compulsion. Having once

increasing in conveying

Railroads Adopt Buses. that he had given up motering he been bitten, only utter ruin could d States is fast taking the lead ger travel anne he was sdel a bag "driver, make most people dispense with hera of passengers over rowing At the same time that

tremendous increase of bus trans- Railroads, at first antagonistic Here, I think, we have the more some sort of ear to get about in.

registering, the to bus transportation, have seen honest mun. There Bre

Of course, some of us would be networks of highway lines.

Railroads, electric street rail-portation, WAS people who will never, with all more last without ears than other ways, rapid transit lines are los-steam railroads lost nearly 93, their error in delaying the adop pertion of this new mode of travel who live in the the training and all the care in Those of

ing to the motor coach the traffic 300,000 passengers, or 9.7

would

to cent. of their total traffic, and the and are fast adapting this to their the world, make · good drivers, country at some distance from a

that ordinarily

in-street railway lines lost more own benefits. According to Hor- There are but few of these, but railway, look upon cura as so much her. Bes manufacture is

or ner, more than 300 electric rail- the few are constitutionally is part of the daily routine of living creasing as fast as that, of pas-than 100,000,000 passengers,

way companies in the United capable of handling a car, just as that going suddenly without would senger automobiles, the coaches 3 per cent, of their total.

are now op. motor am constitutionally enpubly be like having the light cut off or are being built to furnish every. A great deal of this lost traffic States and Canada"

erating nearly 11,000 though taught for many

than 20.- weary something similar; we shouldn't conceivable comfort, and addi- went over to the motor buses.

Yet motor buses barely exist. couches covering more years, of handling a piano. One perish, but we should be very tional lines of transportation are

in conjunction being laid out almost daily.

ed 15 years ago. In 1912 there 1000 route miles does not despise them; perhaps a seriously handleapped in living.

And, in addition to the utility The vast increase of bus travel were a few motor "stages" in the with their rail service. little pilly for what they miss

.50 addition companies Some Indicated, and to those who admit aspect of the case, there is the in the US.A. is brought out by western part of the United States. their shortcoming. certain sentimental. Most of us not only publication in the Journal of the With the beginning of 1926, there have entirely scrapped their elec amount of firpise.

like motoring, but we like motor- Society of Automotive Engineers were 70,000 motor buses in the tric equipment and I can understand, however, sich fing in our own curA. We get to of a report by Frederick C. Her country. But three years lator erating with about 500 motor buses alone. Many large steam railroads have abandoned short an one saying that he cannot drive, jlove our buses as yachtsmen lova ner of General Motors on. the ap-this had grown to 92,400.

transport lo

lines or spurs but wishes he could and letting it their craft; we cherish them and, iplication of motor-

on thefr aystems ko at that. But, I cannot grasp maybe, go without many things in passenger movement. This report.

and replaced these with buses. To-day the number of motor In one case a steam railroad, in why the gentleman of whom I am other directions to be able to own was presented to the society at its

recent convention in Toronto...

coaches in operation exceeds 100,- saving $25,000 a year where one writing should say that he has them.

a daily Could you give up? Think

Horner, motor 000, while their total mileage on motor coach has replaced kiven up driving because he is

According kuch a bad driver and then begin what it means. I doubt if any conch transportation in one year, scheduled rates is around 725, train.

compared with 250,000 The raflroads have discovered la attack motorists in the mass. average motorist could. Can 1927, saved the travellers of the 000, One of his attacks in in rogard to imagine a mun who has had a United States at least $100,000, route miles of the steam rail-room for immense savings by the The speed limit. He says that it terrible smash through his own lo00. If that's true, considering roads. Of the total motor bus operation of buses in place of must alay, and if repealed, he will fault swearing off. Added to the the increase of travel last year mileage, however, only 290,000 short haul trains. The Boston classified as common & Maine railroad, for instance, to his utmost to work up the nervous shock there would then be and this, this saving must have miles are

cost of run- destrians of the country|| Into remorse, which might well make risen considerably over that fig-carrior routes, the rest being do- has found that the

voted to sight-seeing, hotel and ning a steam passenger train, an' outery for its reinstatement. anyone swear off. But in ordinary jure.

school routes.

without any charge for road-bed The Speed Limit!

circumstancea, ordinary, balanced

Tripled in Five Years.

Bus transportation is divided for rail maintenance, was $1.50 a Here, perhaps, pre have the people will continue to drive,

themselves,

The reason for this in the tre-into two services-short-haul in- mile. The cost of operating, elec #renting

72 cents. But wecret of his not being able to behaving drive. Anyone who thinks that others as they would be treated mendous increase of bus passen tercity or intra-state service, and tric raticare was

or long-haul linea. the operating cost for buses the existence of the speed limit themselves, and looking at the ger travel in the last five years Interstate

A shown by Hornor, the in-Last year saw the transportation was 29 cents a mile. of 20 miles an hour makes any crank with amused tolerance.

me for nearly 200,000,000 passenger Thus the railroads are profit- or shert hauls, with an average ling in two ways from the use of of nearly 14 miles per passenger. buses, where formerly they op- At the same time nearly 30,000,- erated at a loss. First, they have 1000 passengers were carried over reduced their losses on unproft- the longer inter-state routes for able train operations and, second, an average of about 60 miles per they have increased passenger-rev- passenger.

enue from motor coach lines act- For long distance travel,, bussa ling as feeders to the long haul have been built providing every rail systems. passible comfort for the passen- Besides using buses to replace gers, One type of coach manu-local train service,. or as feeders factured at Grinnell, Ia., provides to their main lines; railroads have five types of accommodations also found use for them in tour. equivalent to coach, parlor, pulling services at summer resorts, man, observation and smoking national parks and such Recom- cura of a railroad train--all in modations, to carry one coach. Another type of coach from and to railroad shops, to act provides a kitchen In addition to. as links between train terminals pullman service for the convent- and the heart of cities, such as

All New York, and to make local ence of the travellers,

In one instance of a transcon- stops between zone points of fast tinental motor enach line, the trains,

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