TRAMWAY LOAN

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26262, 6 November 1950, Page 2

TRAMWAY LOAN

Sir,—The sensitive ‘‘D.Y.’’ who dislikes the sound of gears says that 85 per cent, of television interference in England is due to cars. Naturally, since for every trolley-bus there are thousands of cars, and interference suppressors (costing ss) are still not compulsory. It is a recognised and undeniable fact that trolley-buses are among the very worst and most unsuppressible sources of radio interference. and not merely with television and short-wave reception as in the case of cars. Just "ask anybody living near the present trolley-bus routes whether they do not spoil the reception even of 2YA. Away with them! The cost of another poll is insignificant compared with the continuing extra cost of running trolleybuses where Diesel buses are more efficient, as the Tramway Board well knows they are from that expert report it so carefully suppressed.— Yours, etc, THROW IT OUT. November 4, 1950.

Sir.—Tramway Board members do, not realise that many voted agaihst the last loan not because of Labour propaganda, but because they objected to the trams being scrapped. It would be interesting to know how it is proposed to keep a transport service requiring rubber and oil in the event of another war. It would also be interesting to know what the Health Department thinks of the state of the ventilation In buses when crowded. Did the Tramway Board draw up the bus fflan. or is it one prepared for them by someone else? Buses would be quite good for extensions to present services, but let us keep our trams run by electricity, which will be more plentiful when the buses are worn out.—Yours, etc, „ u ■ , OVER-RATED. November 4, 1950.

. Sir,—Raising a tramway loan is just throwing good money after bad. It is quite easy to tell Mr Mac Gibbon what to do if the loan Is not carried. The board should long ago have realised that Christchurch, with its thousands of cars and cycles, has not the tram-travelling population of overseas and of. the hiflv cities of New Zealand. There are far too many trams and buses running empty or almost empty. This shows that the overhaul of the time-table is long overdue. Owing to grandiose schemes in the past we are already paying a rent instead of a rate on our properties.—Yours, ttc, v „ t COMMON SENSE. November 5. 1950.