TRAMWAY FARES.

Evening Star, Issue 12902, 27 August 1906, Page 2

TRAMWAY FARES.

TO THE EDITOE. Sir, —Somo timo ago you intimated that there was talk'of doing away with the concession tickets on the electric cars, and reducing th© fares for the longer journeys. I understand that the users of the cars within the city boundaries are referred to as casual travellers, and the people in the suburbs as the regular travellers who deserve some consideration. Are the people who are rated to pay the interest on the cost of construction, and have to make good any loss in the working to receive no consideration? Casual travellers, forsooth! The city dwellers had better all move to the Valley or Anderson Bay, so that they may come under the heading of regular travellers. What a howl there would be from city property-owners! And what a howl from our small army of Corporation officials, with no one left to pay them their wages. Our new traffic manager ■would then have to devise means of increasing the fares to the regular travellers. To do away with the concession tickets would be a backward step. Rather encourage the system by increasing the number of depots where they can be purchased. I would suggest as one of the depots the tramway office at the Town Hall. As it is, with the large number of tokens used, our conductors hove a difficult task in collecting all the fares in a crowded car. What would it bo if there were no tokens, and the conductors had to give change to every other passenger? Any system which encourages passengers to provide themselves with tickets beforehand is good, and should bo fostered.—l am, etc., Jon?; Littucjohn. August 27.