Urban and Interurban Buses

Rapid development of the bus, or as some prefer—the motor coach—in urban and interurban transportation, has given railway operators a new problem; that is, to find the best and most economical use to which the motor coach can be put, and then to fit it into its proper place in the transportation system. The demand for motor-coach service in recent years has come directly from the traveling public. We have been living in an era of great prosperity in which the number of private automobiles averages almost one for every family in the country. The comfort and convenience of the automobile has created a demand for deluxe travel, and the motor coach has appeared to meet that demand, regardless of economic law which, under less prosperous conditions, would be a determining factor.