LINWOOD TRAM SERVICE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14310, 2 March 1907, Page 10

LINWOOD TRAM SERVICE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Tn common with dozens of others I have waited for a Linwood car at Broadway’s for twenty minutes, and have seen empty cans for Papanui follow each other in quick succession. Number's of Linwood people, tired of standing waiting for a car to their own neglected suburb, at last walk home. When a Linwood car does come in sight it is simply rushed. Men are lucky if they get even room to cling on; a seat is quit© out of the question. Women and girls are crushed together anyhow, some nearly fainting. Lately two cars have come up, but not regularly, and so ono never knows whether there will be two or not, and, consequently, there is the frantic dive for the one that does. come. I have waited for the second, and have found that it had been packed long before it reached Broadway’s at all. The courteous, perspiring conductor looks as if he had been in a football scrimmage after he has tried to collect fares, Surely there is a remedy. The crush is only to Stanmore Road. Why not have a double line laid as far as that, and then some of those . lovely, well-lighted, large up-to-date cars which travel empty so often to favoured Papanui could be usefully em-„ played In a ten-minute service during . the busy period. Three cars, one from Richmond and two from Linwocd, have all met together at Stanmore Road on their way to town, getting in each other’s way and wasting time on loops > to allow cans to pass. How much better if the Richmond tram ran-midway between the times of the other cans. < Another point is this: if you hoard art electric car at the Clock Tower you can ride to Stanmore Road for a penny. Vet if you are unlucky enough to have to get in the dirty, ill-lighted, shaky Richmond tram, you have to pay a penny from Broadway’s (where it starts) to Stanmore Road. More expensive and a much worse service. - . Could not our Mr Flesher see about ■ ■ having the penny section for the steam tram extended to Stanmore , Road■. Bridge, or at any rate to Armagh - Street? I am voicing the complaints of hundreds of long-suffering Linwood residents, so please pardon the length, of the wail.—-I am, etc., i TIRED PEDESTRIAN.