SPEED OF TRAMS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18802, 21 September 1926, Page 11

SPEED OF TRAMS.

TO THE EDITOK 0 , TM rKESS _ Sir,—The following may bo of interest to you in re the above. I cycled down to the railway to meet a ladv off the ferry, and saw hcr on to a 2 car at Moorhouse avenue, arranging rveW 1 ?- aWait rae ai mh F °* f - Mv hj" or! ui Btted t0 a friend th «re 2Jmin of ih« - he C3r a F' Kcd ' - U »"> AagJ of the journey did I hurrr; in fact som ew i, at j s i acktlied t h . mile* per hour. I) 0 you not think such tni? a P I ni T " g 3S this - » ot »« o«stlnd. iJL f * Ca . D assure • vou ' Proves the "eod for real acceleration? Thirteen minutes from, the Square to Ten,,™" n iS (•° apply t0 n " tri f' s B '»*V ana slack. Cars are so often dragging around our streets, devoid of anv business ,ke hustle, as though in a constant state ot dozing, that the whole affair wants a shako to see if it is really awake at all. Eleven minutes should take any car to Tennvson street surely. Any easy-going cvclist can do it in that time, and With* ears capable of twenty-three to twenty-fire miles per hour surelv thev can do it, too. ' '

lho points that occur to mo are these. Accelerated trams would provide a few more car trins per dav and the rolling stock is not too plentiful. Jf moro trips per day are not desired, let tho conductors utiliso the extra time at termini with a duster givinc the seats a dash over alter each triptrailers especially. By comparison with a great many other centres 7 , in mv experience, our cars, the finest in* construction, are the dirtiest, besides being the slowest.—Yours, etc.,

CASHMERE September 20th, 192 G.