SYDNEY'S TRAFFIC PROBLEM

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 5

SYDNEY'S TRAFFIC PROBLEM

(rROM OBR OWN CORRESPONDENT;)

. SYDNEY, llth July. The comfortable 'and convenient transport of the enormous flow of traffic into and out of the city every day is one of the problems with which Sydney is faced. Flying has not reached that stage at which it can supplement, the existing means .of transport, and thus relieve the congestion in the streets, so it is proposed to drive -huge tunnel* and put most of the tram traffic in the city underground. This is the proposal, supplementary to the city railway, which is before the Railway Commissioners. There will .be two tunnels, nndmg their outlet at Circular quay This work win follow the construction and electrification of the underground railway.. Thus, in the city proper before yery many years, Sydney's railways and tramways will drop Tout of sight, and whirl people about below the earth's surface. The estimated cost in 1915 of the underground tramways, apart from the. cost of land resumptions, ,wns £2,000,----000, but the bill will now probably be. a bit more pelican-like in its proportions. Jiut bydney will willingly fate a long bill if it will bring with it more comfortable transport.