THE TRAM SYSTEM.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1928, Page 6

THE TRAM SYSTEM.

A COMPETITION FOR mjctggM

(To the Editor.)

Might I suggest that the AqcUuml ffiL Council should promote the tion, open to children and the voutlf land! Adults may also enter have not been overburdened with of dabbling in local politics. The nrirl r** awarded will, if the more efficient running of the be: First prize, the gratitude people; second prize, more prize, stiH more gratitude. Such priaeg iS be awarded to the persons who •nve tkl correct answers to the greatest following questions: (I) Why must IS w* run through Queen Street? (2) not alternate cars on each serviro the foot of Welleslev Street as one teSL* and to the foot of Queen Street or cSl!!! Street East and West (via Customs »£ East and West) as the other or altJSr terminus? (3) Why could not a siSfS? or special light tram service by savrirbe run at Id fares between the 'foot Street and Wellesley Street ? (41 Wlw iSS there not be at or near both town loading stations so that trams could behSS with full-fare passengers going 4 minimum and not beyond a certain nuS! distance according to requirements andSS' making these cars more or less "express a? having no passenger stops until the mfohX. distance had been travelled? (5) not the streets round the "Civic SquireMso railed that trams could come up to ift. kerbs and stop there until loaded! (6) WrnS not such railing act as a station site* (71 (£5 not something of the same sort be the foot of Queen Street, say, at the railway station or the old dwk site or these places? (8) Could not certain sections be provided so that cars auk return for further loading when emptriE the limited number of sections had iS travelled without having to go to the end of the route? (9) Would not the elinS. tion of cars (other than the special series cars or buses between Welleslev Street art the foot of Queen Street) give- (a) TtJS transport facilities; (b) less traffic congesW (c) less noise in Queen Street; (d) a mot efficient service; (e) a quicker service br eliminating the snail-like crawl and stops m Queen Street; (f) a means of easier elassifyni passengers according to the distance the* travel; (g) a means of eliminating some of tfa present dead mileage and more profitable qh of each car ! I suggest that the profits frost the competition should be applied to the east of obtaining an advance report on Auckknfi next water shortage. BJS3L'