They might go to Cahir market, do
their business there, and be comfortably back within the day.
Bianconi then thought of extending the car to Tipperary and
Limerick. In the course of the same year, 1815, he started
another car between Clonmel, Cashel, and Thurles. Thus all the
principal towns of Tipperary were, in the first year of the
undertaking, connected together by car, besides being also
connected with Limerick.
It was easy to understand the convenience of the car system to
business men, farmers, and even peasants. Before their
establishment, it took a man a whole day to walk from Thurles to
Clonmel, the second day to do his business, and the third to walk
back again; whereas he could, in one day, travel backwards and
forwards between the two towns, and have five or six intermediate
hours for the purpose of doing his business. Thus two clear days
could be saved.
Still carrying out his scheme, Bianconi, in the following year
(1816), put on a car from Clonmel to Waterford. Before that time
there was no car accommodation between Clonmel and
Carrick-on-Suir, about half-way to Waterford; but there was an
accommodation by boat between Carrick and Waterford. The
distance between the two latter places was, by road, twelve
miles, and by the river Suir twenty-four miles. Tom Morrissey's
boat plied two days a week; it carried from eight to ten
passengers at 6 1/2d.
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