TRAM SERVICES
TO THE EDTTOE OT THE PRESS. Sir, —I have had occasion to go to town several times this week, and have had to stand on the trams both ways each time, and dozens of others have stood, too. Why don’t we have extra trams at the busy time of the day, from 1.30 to 2.30 in the afternoon, going into town, and from 4.30 until 5.30 going out, especially while the schools are closed and during wet weather? This evening, at 4.45, the No. 14 tram was crowded out in Cathedral square, and people were standing; and yet the tram stopped at every stopping place and people crowded on until we were packed like sardines. There should have been another tram following on at a busy time like that.—Yours, etc., TIRED OF STANDING. September 3 (?), 1937. [Mr H. E. Jarman, general manager of the Christchurch Tramways, said, when this letter was referred to him, that the matters complained of would be applicable for short periods only, and on all routes. “It would be a costly matter for the ratepayer if the provision of standing passengers were cut out. There is less of this in Christchurch than anywhere. It is rarely that trams and buses are filled to capacity. and in this city the loading is one way onb'.”l
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22194, 10 September 1937, Page 7
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