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Show WO AUTOS : ' LINK NEW YORK WITH MAINLAND Survey Shows Immensity ot Traffic Going in and Out of Metropolis NEW YORK, Nov. fi. New proof of the immense volume of traffic going in and out nf New V.ik daily Is presented 1m the National Automobile t'hamber of Commerce- It is in the form of figures fig-ures showing th' number of nioior hide.- that go daily to and from Manhattan Man-hattan lajandi Rased cn three uep-iraie surveys, it is shovn that 164,700 motor cars and trucks ester nnd leave Manhattan daily. f these, 180.000 cross the brliicc that conned the island to th mainland, the caching Ihe hri of tho city b Ferry. The acrage number of passengers in a car is 2.7, and the irurks hat an average of ih ton Manhattan and Queensborough bridges have the i,ea lest motor traffic, which at times reaches as high as 1?,44 cars an hour Over the Manhattan spans the daih travel rate is Co. 21 4 motor vehicle.', ind oer the QueensborotiRh connection connec-tion the number of automobiles totals 17.594. The extent to which traction lines nt. relieved by passenger cars is siiown by ihe fact that 420,000 perscnR use the latter method of (ravel dally. This motor traffic Is equivalent to nearly cne-third of the interborouRh subway business, which carries 1, 367,000 fares dally. The passenger car Figures take account only ol vehicles entering or leaving the city and do not include trips within 'he city. I Trucking Is heaviest in the earlv and middle part of ihe week, showin. a slight falling falling off on Satur day to a negligible amount on Sunday Twenty-three per cent of the trucks counted during three days were trAv ellng without loads, which suggf the need for fuller use of return lo; bureaus and posslhle Ir.ck of economy in planning trips cn (he part of the owner. |