TRAM SERVICE.
.Sir,—Your correspondent " Disgusted " is not half strong enough in his remarks about the tram service and the way the motor buses are being treated by the City Council. If the members of the council would como and stay in Onehunga or Epsom they would understand why we hail the advent of the buses with almost ecstasy. Have they ever noticed that the Ouehunga and Boyal Oak tramcars, after about 3.30, almost invariably start from the bottom of Queen Street with their chains up, and overflowing with an angry and suffocating crowd ? To get in at Newmarket is quito an impossibility. Several times I have stood there from 4.30 and onwards, vainly endeavouring to hoard every tram for Epsom, and have seen women with young children in their arms standing patiently, in the rain, hoping against hope that some soft-hearted driver will left them on board, oven though the car is already dangerously overcrowded. When the trams can comfortably carry all those who are anxious to get home in decent time, then it will be time to think of hampering and squeezing out of existence these motor buses, which at present we look on ai» our deliverers from daily torment. Doubly Disgusted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18763, 17 July 1924, Page 7
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203TRAM SERVICE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18763, 17 July 1924, Page 7
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