OVERCROWDING IN TRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 6

OVERCROWDING IN TRAMS.

I am unfortunate enough to l)e a daily traveller on the Onehunga trams, and, like many more travellers by the same medium, I am heartily sick of continuous strap hanging. Between the hours of 7.30 and 5.30 a.m. it is impossible to secure a seat on the inward trip, if boarding the car anywhere between Greenwood's Corner and the city, and as passengers are picked up en route, these trams become a mass of struggling humanity, with a conductor, and very often an inspector, elbowing liis way through with the utmost difficulty. The same thing occurs between 5 and 5.45 p.m. on the outward journey, and it is interesting to hear the various forms of condemnation of the Transport Board by the owners of the trams who are forced to travel under such uncomfortable conditions. A couple of extra ears on this populous route between the hours mentioned would alleviate to some little e,\tent this awful congestion. The board should see to it that the owners of the trams should have the best service possible, but on the Onehunga route it can be truthfully said that this is not so bv a long way. STRAP-HAXGER.