sentences:  Passenger figures had also started to fall, as pre-World War II the government had started a bridge building programme.By 1971 Jamaica had of roads, 1,350 of which were paved; alongside motorbuses which were accessing further inland, private cars had increased from 15,000 in 1950 to 142,300 by 1975.After a post-World War II report by C. E. Rooke recommended closure of the Port Antonio to Spanish Town line, the government only closed the Linstead to Ewarton branch in 1947.