SYDNEY TRAM TRAFFIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18947, 19 February 1925, Page 9

SYDNEY TRAM TRAFFIC.

main street services. POSSIBILITY OF REMOVAL. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] SYDNPJY. Feb. 13. If the Labour Party has its way—and at present it wields something approaching complete sway in Sydney's civic government—the trams will be removed from the main streets of tlie city and buses will take their place. The argument, used is that the city's' busiest thoroughfares were not constructed to carry light railways, and that the. use of the streets by continuous lines of trams during the rush hours, prevents their use for their proper functions of dealing with the ordinary vehicular and pedestrian traffic. It is highly probable that the Labour caucus in the City Council will endorse fully the recommendation of a recent traffic conference that no more tramlines should be permitted in the centre of the city, and that the trams now running should bo removed from the citv areas altogether. Just now a number of "the Labour aldermen are advocating strongly the control of the tram traffic by the" City Council, as an instalment of the long-talked-of Greater Sydney scheme, which, it is argued, would give the council control of the gas supply, the water and sewerage system, and even the harbour traffic. These, at all events, are all part, of the civic Labour platform.