OUR TRAMWAY CONVENIENCES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 7, 10 January 1899, Page 2

OUR TRAMWAY CONVENIENCES.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Unless the passengers by the trarncar either inform the conductor where to stop ■or else chance catching his eye they are reluctantly over carried, or else are forced to alight whilst the car is in motion, thereby runninga great risk of meeting with an accident. What is requjred is that a bell, similar to that used in the bus service, only on an improved and more modern style, be placed within the reach of every passenger, in each car. It is not reasonable to expect the conductor to remember twenty or more different stages where the passengers wish to alight. Had the cars stated stopping places (which they should have) then a'bell would not be necessary. Especially is it hard for those who are crippled and aged, who cannot possibly seek the conductor while the car is in motion, for him to stop it. The bus service is well equipped with this simple and cheap yet useful convenience. I can't understand how the people of Auckland and suburbs have not made an effort to get the necessary remedy ere this. Thanking you in anticipation for the insertion of these few lines in your valued paper, and trusting some abler pen. than mine will take the matter up.—l am, etc., PROGRESS.