TRAMWAY SERVICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20075, 12 October 1928, Page 16

TRAMWAY SERVICES.

r.u . - -Bein» a ratepayer —one of those v.-v<■, have to foot the bill when demands for salaries for tnghly-paid officials are made—r have a few pertinent remaiks to make. As m\ home, is in the vicinity of Green Lane. 1 travel by the Great South Road car. The service is supposed to be a 10 minutes' one; but on Thursday morning the car which was timed to leave the terminus at 9.41 was four minutes late ori reaching Momona Road. On the previous evening between 5.30 and six o'clock, f had to wait with many others in the rain for 17 minutes 'or a Great South Road car, while car after car, at least seven or eight., passed through to the Epsom barn. One afternoon last week I saw six tramcars turn into the Remuera Road, while I was waiting for one to take me home. On Saturday last, soon alter noon, the Great South Road car was packed in a manner that can only be described as disgraceful. In London, with its population (during working hours) of ten and a-half millions, with proper management there is little if anv difficulty in getting about. There, too with so many competing buses, the con ductors and drivers are always on the look-out at every intersecting street for passengers—but not so lie:re. The speed, too. of eigh* miles an hour, is riot equal to the old-tiir.e lioise inis. Disgusted.