TRAMS V. BUSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 85, 11 April 1929, Page 8

TRAMS V. BUSES.

"Common Sense" says the trams in Brisbane twenty years ago were better than we have now in Auckland. That may be. He also says that he can get into the city in a quarter of an hour, while the tram takes half an hour. Quite true, but what about when the motor bus stops to pick up women and children and elderly people when it is raininjr, and he is the last to get in when everybody has to pay as he enters, and if he is in first and wants to get out? I have seen tram rails for the electric care put down in Capetown. Adelaide, Melbourne and Wellington. Have they scrapped any of these trams yet? I send vou a clipping from the Melbourne "Age." COLONIST.

The cutting forwarded by our correspondent is headed "The Future of Trams," and the writer denies that tramways are being "scrapped/' He quotes a writer in the ■"Commercial Motor," which is devoted to a rival system of transport, as saying that "nearly all large city tramways established in places all over the world are spending heavily on definitely new equipment." In the three largest cities in Britain, outside Greater London, 57J miles were added to tramway systems in the five years 1923-28. All these cities have large fleets of buses. In every larg? city in the world, says the writer in the "Age,"'

except Greater London, trarawayf carry the bulk of the surface passenger traffic.