RE ELECTRIC TRAMS IN WILLIS STREET.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 87, 15 April 1901, Page 5

RE ELECTRIC TRAMS IN WILLIS STREET.

TO -THE EDITOB. Sir,— As one of those interested in this question I w.ould like to give my objections under present conditions, to a double train liie in WilUs-strfeejt. The street, in the centre, measures 53ft 6in from kerb to kerb, but as no self-respect-ing driver will drive into, the gutter oa account of contact with poles and posts, 2ft may be deducted oa aoooanfe of the t utters, leaving available a space of 31ffe in. The ordinary standard electric car has an average Width of seven feet, and nothing less than three feet of room between passing cars will theet the requirements of % flurried pedestrian, utrfortoflate in gettatojf between two caits in motion. The miamrum space taerefore requited for two toWSsing trams will be seventeen. j feet> whioli leaves fourteen feet sk inonei I for ordinary traffic or 7ft 3in on eftoh side. The ordinary allowance raatie in practice, for tuMoltis is Bft 6in t6 ftllow safe passage of »11 classes. In Ghew's Ltfne, ■which overages 14ft in width, tire I6cking <>f drays *nd expresses in attempting to pass, is of freqnent occurence, ajnd inspection of the boundary w»Ils will shew the damage cantod by the insufficient width. The "back end" unloading of goods is ti tourse impossible ilnder the propf)EC<l dotfbJft service in Willis-street. If . .-. double sfefrvice is persisted in before t!> i street is widtfned there will be \n\>^ bus acci«teßfcs end delays in e*rr:n . . oh the service, and even after tie Mrecs is Widened, if the JUses. «\re not: shif ,5. lire west side of Willis-street will br ' oi • ■manentSy crippled for room, for oic».n;"i traffic. The only proper feolutiou o f 1)^ problem is to complete the widfi'nirij t Willis*&reiet at once for a <hsubl<r "■ jvitee or else to lay a sirigte <io6p) Hue tapaced in «*ch a way that when Wi. <: - street is widened, the second ttue cno uo