TRANSPORT IN BRITAIN
LONDON URBAN ORGANISATION GREATEST IN THE WORLD (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, June 16. The Passenger Transport Board, undoubtedly the greatest urban • transport organisation in the world, will shortly celebrate its first birthday. Remarkable smoothness and efficiency have marked the result.,of this co-ordination of services, which comprises ninety-two concerns—five railway, seventeen tramways, sixty-two omnibus, four coach, and four subsidiary undertakings—and has a total canitai of aonroximately £109,000,000. Its staff numbers 62,000, and it owns a total of 11,550 passenger vehicles. The board serves an.area of 2,000 square miles and a population of approximately 9,400,000, or nearly a quarter that of England and Wales. -
In 1933 its undertakings carried 3,500,000,000 passengers, which is equal to, conveying every day almost as many people as there are in the whole of Canada, and more than the combined populations of Scotland and Ireland.
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Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 9
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145TRANSPORT IN BRITAIN Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 9
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