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COMMUNICATIONS
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VEHICLES IN TOWNS
Transport within the municipal towns in this district is not of
material importance. There are very few automobile vehicles.
Most of the traffic consists of vehicles which come from outside. Scores of motor trucks from Bombay and Poona ply through the towns and business centres.
Vehicles are classified into four categories, viz., (1) motors, (2) tongas,
(3) bullock-carts, and (4) bicycles, according to the motive power used for
their locomotion. The following statement gives the number of vehicles in the various towns as in 1958-59: - |
Category |
Alibag |
Mahad |
Shriwardhan |
Murud |
Panvel |
Pen . |
Roha | |
Motors |
41 |
28 |
20 |
15 |
78 |
65 |
23 | |
Tongas |
12 |
2 |
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23 |
N.A. |
7 |
N.A. | |
Bullock-carts |
78 |
55 |
250 |
212 |
N.A. |
180 |
87 | |
Bicycles |
200 |
200 |
284 |
700 |
N.A. |
N.A. |
117 |
N. A. = Not available.
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