- Tytuł:
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Początki zorganizowanej komunikacji miejskiej w Krakowie
The beginnings of organized public transport in Kraków - Autorzy:
- Adamczyk, Elżbieta
- Wydawca:
- Wydawnictwo Gajt 1991
- Opis:
- Public transport in Kraków, as in other cities, Has been initiated by horse-drawn buses, later replaced by streetcars, originally powered by horses and since 1901 by electricity. The streetcar had, from the very beginning, stirred the public opinion, for it had excessively interfered with the medieval architecture of Kraków. The cities authorities though had given a high priority to the development of public transport, and delegated the task of engineering a streetcar network in Kraków to a specialized private company with adequate funds and technical and organizational knowledge. The company had played a significant role in the creation, electrification, and exploitation of streetcars in Kraków, until a conflict of public and private interests had been revealed, which eventually led to the municipalization of the company. The streetcar has been a main mode of public transportation in Kraków all along. The bus service, introduces in 1927, had been treated as a secondary mode, and had also been supposed to help estimate the number of people that would use the future tram lines.
- Dostawca treści:
- Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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