MOTOR BUSES IN SYDNEY
Within the metropolitan triSd 'area, motor buses are, in many places, nearly as common now-a-days as trams, with which they are now very serious competitors. The Chief Railway Com missioner, who controls the tramways, complains that he has to help to make the roads, and that the motor buses come along and help to break them by using the tram tracks.' The motor buses, many of them magnificent vehicles, are popular, and have certainly come to stay. There are about 400 ot them operating in the metropolitan area alone, and it is estimated that they carry on an average more than two and a quarter million passengers a month. The buses have certainly done one good thing. They have tapped many big centres of population which otherwise would be more or less isolated. Ihese big fleets of buses, operating day and night between the city and . the suburbs, and maintaining services as regular as the trams, are not a pleasant spectacle for those controlling the. trams. The bus services are developing' more rapidly every day almost. That they are popular with the public is beyond .question.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 16, 19 January 1924, Page 13
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190MOTOR BUSES IN SYDNEY Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 16, 19 January 1924, Page 13
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