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XIII. INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS OF SWEDEN.
in the larger towns, especially is this the case in Gothenburg and
Stockholm. It may be worth mentioning that the railways of our
country only to a very slight extent are utilized for local traffic.
Quite characteristic
means of communication
within Stockholm are
those numerous littlt
steamboats that for
decenniums have been
keeping up a lively traffic
on the many waterways
of the capital. Of låte,
the tramways have,
however, proved a check to
their further progress.
To keep up the traffic
in Stockholm and its
immediate environs, there
were in 1902, 64
steamboats and ferries, each
of which could
accommodate 123 passengen
on the average. The
number of daily runs is
on some lines exceedingly
large, and the number
of passengers amounts to
several millions a year;
an exact statement in
figures about this concern
does not exist though.
— The length of
tramway line» is 24-5 :>
kilometers, and, in round
numbers, they carried in
1903, 19mi million
passengers, corresponding on
an average to about 60
runs per inhabitant. The
tramways are in the possession of two companies: one for the Northern parts of
the town, with lines of 19-31 kilom, and 15-90 million passengers, and one for
the South, with lines of 5 24 kilom, and 3-21 million passengers. The latter
company has been keeping up the traffic, during several years, by means of steam
trams and now uses electric motors. From 1904 also the Northern trams have
introduced electric running. — The hilly ground of Stockholm has given rise to
peculiar means of communication in the two elevators to the South (those of
Katarina and of Maria, with about 1 million passengers each per annum) and the
Brunkeberg tunnel running under the Brunkeberg ridge, with 1V» million
traffickers a year. — The omnibu* traffic of Stockholm is little developed and chiefly
calculated upon the immediate neighbourhood during the summer months.
In Gothenburg, the tramway traffic was originally delivered into the hands
of a foreign (English) company, which circumstance proved an impediment to its
progress. Lately, however, the Gothenburg tramways have been purchased by the
The Katarina Elevator in Stockholm.
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