MOTORBUS DEVELOPMENTS IN STOCKHOLM.
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,Routes Opened Up by the Building of Bridges Connecting the City's Many Islands.
SCA:■.-DINAVIA provides greater scope for the sale of buses and other commercial vehicles than it did in the past. Visiting Stockholm now after an absence of several years, one would be surprised to see how the motorbus has come into favour in this city of islands. In the past year or two the bus has steadily gained ground at the cost of earlier means for communication, such as trams, ferry boats, lifts and tunnels.
Being built upon 15 rocky islands of varying sizes and heights, Stockholm has, of course, more difficulties than other great cities in meeting the demand of the increasing traffic. Rocky hills have•had to be blasted and bridges have been built so as to create traffic arteries.
Previously tunnels connecting the islands and having steep stairways or lifts at each end were used by pedestrians, as well, as small and speedy ferry boats. A few years ago some motorbuses were placed in commission and they quickly became more popular than other means for communcation.
From a Swedish Government department we learn that whereas during the first half of 1928, 11,388,886 passengers used the Stockholm buses, no less than 16,518,156 passengers travelled in them during the corresponding period of this year. A similar comparison shows that