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Show Bus Lines in Illinois Big Transportation Aid Operating fleets of .872 busses, with an organization with nearly $10,000,-'Ono $10,000,-'Ono invested, 7S bus lines now blanket the state of Illinois, aided ably by the state's system of hard roads, perhaps per-haps the best in the Union. These busses last year operated 25,280.120 miles, and carried 76.73S.7.39 passengers. These figures are taken from a report re-port made by Chester G. Moore, executive execu-tive vice-president of the Illinois Motor Mo-tor Transportation association, for an inter- tate commerce hearing. Of these 7S companies 63 operate intercity busses only, wdiile 17 have interstate operations. Of the S72 busses. 32S ply between the cities of Illinois, the rest operating within the limits. of the cities of Illinois. How the bus lines compare with the steam lines is shown by the fact that in Illinois during the year 1025 the railroad0 carried S" 553,"6 1 fare-paying passengers at the average fare of 78 3-10 cents per passenger, while the intercity busies carried S. 153,021 -. fare-paying passengers at an average 'are of 00 3-5 f-nfs per passenger. As the city busses, operating in cities only, carried an additional 08,-50-719 rir,-pnrPrs. it is shown, the report states, that 47 4-5 per cent of the pneon"ers carried bv the steam rni'r-i'di and busses combined were handled on bosses, and 52 1-5 per cent I on the steam railroads. |