TRAMWAY EXTENSIONS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18263, 23 December 1924, Page 13

TRAMWAY EXTENSIONS.

+ - AMERICAN VISITOR ASTOUNDED. "It sec ins criminal that tho Mcl« bourno tramway authorities, tlic motoromnibus companies, and the Gorcrrn ment should not have tsikcn advantage of tho exhaustive osixrimcnts, extend* ing ovev a period of Jivo yenre, li America to cope with tho traffic problem." This statement wm made in Melbourne by tho secretary and nalc-1 manager of tho F.-gcol Motors Company, Oakland (Mr -J. II- Fort), who is touring Australia for tlio purpose or enquiring into transportation uuestions. Mr Fort n'.is forcibly stTuck by th» neglect of Australians t<> tako advantage of the experiences of other countries which had had thosamo traffic and transportation difficulties with' which Australia was confronted. In America, he said, the motor-omnibus had ceased to be it motor lorry or truck. It was a comfortable and handsomely upholstered 'passenger vehido of Uio obfervation rr.ir typo. _ . . Observing tho erection of orvjrhcnd electric; gear in William' &tnw>t. Mr Fort .said that he was afltounded that a city like Melbourne should bo perpetuating transportation methods which had bepn relegated to tho scrap "henp .veal's ago by other countries. Nowhere else iii the world were tramway lines being extended. Motor-omnibus Horvices were being established to apt as feeders to tho existing tram and train services., and new motor-bus routes were being established in tho outer suburb# oT cities in advunoe of settlement. It was invariably found that population followed the buses.