Show TRUCKS TAKE SHORT Busses Supplant Rail Rail- Railroads Railroads roads In East Traffic Is Changing ny fly LARRY BOARDM nOARD NEA Sen cers N Ice Writer WASHINGTON Jan Jsn lt 31 31 It used to 10 be bo horses Now v It s a motor vehicles vehIcle vere I is oads I Trucks and anit busses buse are raJ rapidly cross cro ding short short-lino steam and electric lines oft off the freight and andI passenger mp m 1 p I The Tho latest Indication of ot this I the proposal of the Boston Doston to e Maine Maine railroad to discontInue a milo mile miles of ot It Its line tear up Its hacks and establish a motor truck and bu bus s 10 Instead This Thle Is particularly significant until recently motor ye- ye ve vehicles hides were cutting In only on city cit and suburban trolley line lines and short haul and line branch-line mu- mu roads mil roads ronde A Also Alo then w were re used ns as railroad feeders federe But nut the tho Boston Doston Maine Maino would woud ue uc them to replace a great part of ot Its Is pr present ont rail sers ner Ice BUS Sl STEMS The next question Is how soon oon will they replace rather than mere merely rely electric and ti an train service In other places 0 Motor bus bin passenger and motor I to uck freight lines are ore now Ing arri-Ing Ing on Ing business het hetson New York and Boston Boton New York YOlk nn Philadelphia n Cleel Cleveland nd and andi i Toledo Toledo and Detroit even San and Los T Angeles I e I of HO mils and and a bun bun- bundred I dred more cities throughout the M II KR I IE Many I any railroad and trolley coin coin- rom com companies lIk like the tho Doston Boston S Maine Maine- Malm are beginning to realize they can make a n good thIng out of motor on their own f The Northern Ohio Traction company now operates 62 2 busses buses In addition to 10 Its other activities jq As long distance carriers I rail railroads roads will III ili probably never be bo sup sup- sup supplanted up- up unless planted planted union union- In the tho far tar future by machines for tor short haul hauls the tho countr s 's s system l I Is now undergo undergo- Ing undergoing Ing a Change as radical a as when hen the s themselves were first Introduced luG IRO With this change changa comes comee a II new roads problem roads It 11 Is lit ob foolish and Inefficient to keep al alCons Cons of ot motor vehicle tlc trl traffic slow moving slow mo tast In trucks moving fast busses bussee nn and private eor cars care at all alt on on the tha amo high high- highways highways ways This ha has hao already been reco recognized In certain parts of ot the coun corns country country try Between een Detroit and Pontiac II a a distance of ot 22 miles titerS miles Is Isnow i inow Isnow now under construction a super super- highway superhighway 20 feet teet wide It Il Is to 10 have six traffic lines three In each direction The Th two center are tor for trolley cars oaro the next two for tor slow alow vehicle traffic and the outer two for tor fast traffic MAKE FINE FIC ROlS no no MIS Railroad which tear up their th treks to substitute motor for st lam service will sIll transform their roadbeds Into auto auto- automobile automobile mobile roads 0 Over er these thee rights rights- way ot way of-way they can operate bu bus ami truck lines e In separate traffic Ian rates of ot speed can be main main- maintained without tear fear ot of o accidents be- be because be because cause tho the ot way rights Y being controlled III be bo free tre tre from pUblic travel At the same time tImo regular hl hwai will still bo be left for tor private vehicles |