CARS ON SINGLE LINES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 35, 10 February 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

CARS ON SINGLE LINES.

(To the Editor.) Sir. —When reading the extract of "Safety's" letter in Wednesday's "Star," I could see at once that "Safety" knows absolutely nothing about "handling traffic on single lines."' or else he would not sugge-t such a most ridiculous idea as "pilotboys." I have had it good deal of experience in tramway traffic on the Continent of Europe, and in the U.S.A., and must sr.y the only effective way of having all danger of ears colliding on single lines removed is simply that under no condition is a motorman allowed to leave the loop without passing the other cur. Tbe only exception would be that a car breaks down and then the conductor has to walk to the next loop and inform the motorman of fhe waiting ear what happened and ask him to come on aud take the disabled ear in tow. We. know quite, well that the best of mechanical or electrical contrivances will go sometimes out of order, and therefore such contrivances have lately been to a great extent abolished, and the above-mentioned rule adopted instead.— I am. etc., F.S.