TRAMWAY PLANS
Commenting on "Progress's" letter .regarding the tramways "Horatius" contends that substantial sums are being added to the various sinking funds and reserves. With regard to the promise of quieter trams, the correspondent writes: — . '".
"The manager states that American tramcar designers have improved the undergear of electric trains in the last year. In Wellington, however, "it is evidently very difficult to apply the new ideas^of cait-constructioa, 'JMucia' has
been on the road for several years now and the council has hesitated to order any more of this type. American engineers have a wide wheel track, and bigger radius of curves and wider •streets, and they can. achieve results, but in Wellington with narrow gauge, narrow streets, and sharper curves the conditions are changed and many of the engineering improvements cannot be fully applied. Laying the rails on a bed of concrete cushioned with asphalt and electric welding the joins eliminate some of the noise, but in Willis Street today the noise of passing trams fairly drowns conversation for the time being. Many of the towns of England are scrapping their electric trams. In Bournemouth it has been observed that street accidents have been greatly reduced. In Bristol trams are to be exchanged for buses within two years from now- The Wellington tramways rolling stock of cars has been 196 for the last two years, which indicates that the Corporation has ceased to increase the number of electric tramcars. We do know that it is increasing buses in numbers." "Horatius" reviews the bus accounts and concludes: "In view of the rapid progress in bus design and, of modern transport it would pay the City Council to set up a separate bus department and provide better bus services, which would pay handsomely as the English authorities are finding out more and more every year. The Mayor means well in promising to push the bus system to Mornington and Melrose, but he is anxious to lay morp tram rails to iKarori." ■ '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 10
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