TRAMCARS AND LIGHTS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 9

TRAMCARS AND LIGHTS

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —In these days when even minutes count and cars are rushed one would think that the authorities would take, care to assist the public to avoid, instead of adding to, confusion Lyall Bay and Island Bay, as printed on the cars, are quite perceptibly alike when read at rush distances. Yet, at night, when lit, up, one car has two blue lights and the other three blue lights. Thero are conditions of atmosphere, and so on, and still keeping in mind rush moments, when two blue lights on the. Lyall Bay, car seem to affect tho third with that tint, conversely the centre blue of the Island Bay car is sometimes weak; in 6hort, the lights of the two pars become perceptibly alike, and trap the hurrying traveller. _ I have .been victimised by this confusion twice, by getting on to_the' wrong car That lam not singular in this is shown by the fact that even in my small circle three others have been similarly affected Why'does not the council remedy this by liaving th > lights on these two cars totally different from each other? —I am, etc., ' ' . VICTIM. ■' 4th May, 1916