TRANSPORTATION IN NEW ENGLAND
or selfish interest of one community. The highest development and conservation of the resources of New England—country, town, and city, especially the country—will, in the long run, mean the best development for the particular community in which any individual may be interested.
TABLE A
DISTRIBUTION OF ROAD AND TRACK MILEAGE
New York, New Haven & Hartford, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, and Allied Properties
September, 1913
| States | Road mileage | Track mileage | ||
| Miles | Per cent | Miles | Per cent | |
| Maine | 1,346.73 | 16.8 | 1,923.75 | 13.6 |
| New Hampshire | 1,174.42 | 14,7 | 1,697.45 | 12.0 |
| Vermont | 403.29 | 5.1 | 537.98 | 3.8 |
| Massachusetts | 1,882.82 | 23.6 | 4,144.90 | 29.3 |
| Rhode Island | 491.67 | 6.2 | 838.98 | 5.9 |
| Connecticut | 1,549.96 | 19.4 | 2,808.89 | 19.8 |
| New York | 925.04 | 11.6 | 1,863.41 | 13.1 |
| Pennsylvania | 53.66 | .7 | 139.56 | 1.0 |
| New Jersey | 53.07 | .7 | 106.14 | .7 |
| Quebec | 90.59 | 1.1 | 109.42 | .8 |
| New Brunswick | 5.10 | .1 | 5.10 | — |
| Total | 7,976.15 | 100.0 | 14,175.58 | 100.0 |
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