Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-19 | Page 22 | Italy Adopts Motor Vehicles

ITALY ADOPTS KOTOR VEHICLES Four Hundred Passenger Auto Lines Operating for Travelers' Use Due to the mountainous formation of its country, Italy Is fast adopting the UJS of motor vehicles as feeders to the railroads Railroad lines canl only be built at considerable expense and labor, which accounts in a large part for the nonularitv of nutnmntlva transportation The total length of normal trunk railroad lines in Italy is 8.700 miles, while the length of routes over which motor service are run wdth a fixed tim table is 8.700 milos. I There are 400 of these lines over which' regular public services are run either as feeders to the railroads or In order to open up,ountry whih his re- mained inaccessible to the railroads. Ukvi These public automobile serv ices for 'mJllL,' goods ami passengers were begun in tSl a amall waj e , years ago in ordei to meet the deficiency s f t he rail road system. Thc Imrh ately prov- j ' ' Opulai and rapidly extended until the regular routes are now almost equal in length to the railroad lines "