BUS SCRIMMAGES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12258, 23 February 1937, Page 2

BUS SCRIMMAGES

A QUEUE AT EACH STOI* Queues are to be made compulsory at bus and tram stops in London. This is one of the important changes in the Bill promoted by London Transport for presentation to Parliament ibis session. Although queues are already in operation at many busy stopping places, London Transport has at present no power to enforce them. London will not adopt, the system, successfully employed in Paris for many years, by which interfding passengers tear off numbered slips from little pads fixed on to a convenient lamp-post or bus stop sign, and enter the buses and trams "by numbers." Women with bahies or young children are given first chance of a place. There is never a “scrum,’’ as in London. ’ .Special Seats Specially numbered seats in the Paris buses and trams are still reserved tor wounded ex-Service men. The system of numbered slips works well and simplifies the queue problem at stopping places served by many different bus or tram routes. When in doubt the conductor shouts out the first number shown to him. Anyone with a lower number automatically goes first. To prevent “queue-crashing,’’ everyone must show his number as be boards the bus.

No payment is made for the slips. They are not tickets, but are merely to ensure “first come, first served.” The same Parliamentary Bill will giant London Transport authority to extend the Morden-Hdgware tube line towards Elstree.