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x. internal communications.
lines outside the area of the town proper, the omnibus-traffic that once existed
has almost entirely disappeared.
Gothenburg, the second city of Sweden, has, like Stockholm, during the
course of the last few years, obtained good local communications. Of the
railways running into the city, it is chiefly the western main-line that has
any considerable suburban traffic. In addition, the Särö railway-line — which
was constructed chiefly for the convenience of the citizens of Gothenburg that
go to the local seaside places during the summer — has a considerable amount
of local traffic, as may be seen by Table 131 above. The tramway traffic has
rapidly attained an unexampled development, since the town, some years ago,
took over the management of the lines, which had hitherto been in the hands
of an English company. The length of the lines and the extent of the traffic
is shown by the appended Table. In this town, too, the tramway lines have
been carried beyond the municipal boundaries, to Kviberg (a military centre) and
Mölndal, and also to Långedrag, a seaside- and sporting-resort. There is
also a good service of ferry communications between the banks of the river Göta
älv, which flows through the city.
Malmö had horse-trams at a comparatively early date but, in 1906 the system
were electrified, and the lines very considerably extended. With one exception,
the lines lie within the municipal boundaries, and only one line, running
southwards, viz. that to the Fridhem district near Limhamn, lies outside the town.
To the last-named place, which in future (1915) will be incorporated with
Malmö, there runs a suburban railway (Malmö—Limhamn Railway), which, in
proportion to its length, has the largest passenger-traffic in the whole of Sweden.
Other railway lines running into Malmö, the State lines especially, enjoy an
extensive local traffic, for, in the neighbourhood of these railways, there lie
several large suburban communities, the chief of which is the manufacturing
centre of Arlöv.
There are also tramway lines in the following Swedish towns: Gävle,
Hälsingborg, Jönköping, Karlskrona, Norrköping, Sundsvall, and Uppsala, some of the
lines being carried to the larger centres of population lying near the towns
mentioned. The length of the lines and the extent of the traffic are shown
by Table 131.
3. COUNTRY ROADS,
At the end of 1912, Sweden had 62 526 kilometers of country roads
or, on an average, 15-2 km per hundred square kilometers of its area. In
the six most northerly läns, there were, however, only about 5-5 kilometers
of country road per hundred square kilometers, whereas in the middle and
southern parts of the country, the corresponding figure amounted to 34-3
kilometers. For the Län of Malmöhus, the proportion rises to 66-2
kilometers of country road per hundred square kilometers, but, in the Län of
Västerbotten, is no more than 5-0, and in that of Norrbotten only 2-7.
In a thinly populated country with a configuration so broken as that of Sweden,
the construction of roads between the farms and village communities, and the
keeping of these roads in repair, has always been a heavy burden on the people.
For this reason, it was not possible in the earliest times and during the whole of
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