Ca. Ltd., and the C" aignie Française de Tramways et d'Eclairage Electri-ques de Shanghai, announce the opening of a new Trolley Bus Service hich is to be known as No. 24.
Early this morning, ten railless trams will inaugurate a five minute! service between the intersection of Robison Road and Ferry Road and the corner of Rue Lafayette and Rue Hennequin, passing via Ferry Road, Sinza Road, Seymour Road, Avenue clu Roi Albert and Rue Lafayette. The compulsory and the optional stops are marked out on posts as usual.
This new line was planned more than a year ago and already late last spring the necessary authorization of the authorities concerned was secured by the companies, who hoped to open the line last autumn. The outbreak of the hostilities deferred the work and it is only today that Route 24 will be finally inaugurated.
As about 60 per cent. of the route is in the French Concession, the French Company will furnish six trolley buses for the line, while the Shanghai Electric Construction Ca. will provide the remaining four. Route 24 is the second Trolley Bus service now linking the Settlement and the Concession. The other one being Route 18 which links the E ter section of the North Honan and Range Roads to Pont St. Catherine; while tramway routes two and five are also jointly operated by the same companies, as well as the temporarily suspended Route 4.
When the new trolley bus service was planned, neither the hostilities and the subsequent overcrowding of the Settlement and Concession were either anticipated nor taken into account. But since these events took place the value of the new route is much greater than it was before, as the increased population of the Robison Road and the Central Concession areas are certain to avail themselves of this new cheap and direct means of communication between the two populous districts.
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