A REARRANGEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 19 May 1925, Page 8

A REARRANGEMENT

MIRAMAR AND SEATOUN CARS

AT FIVE MINUTE INTERVALS.

It is probable that a rearrangement of tram services between the city and Miramar and Seatoun will be made during the next two or three weeks in order that a five-minute service may be run to and from the Miramar boundary. At the present time Miramar and Seatoun cars leave Lambton Station within a couple o.f minutes of each other during the greater part of the clay, and also leave their outer termini at such times that they -follow each other very closely on the length of line between the Miramar junction and the Kilbirnie Post .Office, with, naturally, blanks in between. The rearrangement will simply spread tho same number of cars more evenly over the hours, and will give to the residents of the very closely populated area of the first section beyond the Kilbirnie Post Office a five-minute service in place of a ten-minute service. It is, however, not quite so simple a matter _as that, for, in drawing up the new time-table consideration must be given to the times of departure and arrival of other cars running to or past the Kilbirnie Post Office.

The very rapid building development, of Kilbirnie East and Miramar is naturally reflected by a rapjdly-increasiug demand for transport, and whereas a forty-minute service a few years ago served moderately well—as far as tramcar room went, if not as to convenience —it became quite inadequate, and a twenty-minute service was put on. Twenty-minute cars could no longer handle rush-hour traffic and specials were run in as available rolling stock permitted. Now a regular ten-minute service is decided upon ror the morning m-to-work hours, and standing room is still in considerable demand after the first section or so has been covered on the inrun. The result is that passengers who board their cars between the third and fourth sections (from town) stand perforce. Ths same applies, of course, to the Seatoun cars, and, indeed, to practically all long, suburban runs. The difficulty might be overcome to a considerable extent on the Miramar-Seatoun run if a certain number of cars which at present run as far.as .the Kilbirnie Post Office only (and there wait for periods up to five or six minutes) were run on along the next section, as has been done with the Northland cars. A few cars do run on past the Kilbirnie Post Office. It is a matter of time-table arrangement and time-tables may not be juggled with in casual fashion.