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road authorities should have a locus standi to appear before 

 the proposed Traffic Board and Parliament, in opposition 

 to any tramway scheme within their districts, by whomsoever 

 such tramway scheme might be promoted." But nothing has 

 yet been done in the way of carrying this recommendation 

 into effect. 



The proportions in which street and road tramways and 

 light railways [in the United Kingdom were owned by 

 (a) local authorities and (b) companies and private individuals 

 respectively in 1909-10 are shown by the following table, 

 taken from official returns : 



CAPITAL TOTAL 



LENGTH EXPENDITURE ON EXPENDITURE 



NUMBER OF OPEN FOR LINES AND WORKS ON CAPITAL 



BELONGING TO UNDERTAKINGS. TRAFFIC. OPEN FOR TRAFFIC. ACCOUNT. 



M. Ch. 



Local authorities . 176 1710 17 36,807,264 49,568,775 

 Companies, &c. . 124 851 34 19,294,077 24,372,884 



Totals . 300 2561 51 56,101,341 73.941.659 



To this table I might append the following statistics as 

 to the operation of street and road tramways and light rail- 

 ways in the United Kingdom in 1909-10 : 



Capital authorised ...... 93,124,187 



Capital paid up ...... 73, 260,225 



Number of horses ...... 2,365 



Number of locomotive engines .... 31 



Number of cars : 



Electric ....... 11,749 



Non-electric ...... 601 



Total number of passengers carried . . . 2,743,189,439 

 Quantity of electrical energy used (Board of Trade 



unit) ....... 483,671,806 



Gross receipts ....... 13,077,901 



Working expenditure ..... 8,132,114 



Net receipts ^4.945.787 



Appropriations : 



Interest or dividends ..... 1,913,872 



Repayment of debt or sinking fund . . 2 I I 33' I 34 



Relief of rates ....... 346,274 



Added to Common Good funds . . . . 54,028 



Aid from rates ....... 64,215 



It will have been seen from the table given above that the 

 total length of tramways and light railways owned by local 

 authorities is double the length of those owned by companies ; 



