TRAM v. BUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 18 March 1927, Page 11

TRAM v. BUS.

DIFFERENT SPHERES. By Teles*aph-—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 17. The functions of tlio electric tivra and the petrol bus in city vamporfation and the part each, should play, the outlined in a report preSented to the City Council to-night by the tramways manager (Mr A. it. Ford), who recently returned from a tour of inspection of transportation services in the United States of America, Canada, Gieat Britain, 'Europe, and Australia. There was no longer any doubt in the minds of responsible authorities about the bus being here to stay, ami tl at it has a permanent and necessary place in transportation systems, Mr h ora stated. .“One caif say it is universally stated, and often most emphatically so, that their sphere is not as replacement of trains, where the population to be transported is substantial, soy 111 cities of 75,000 and upwards, but as an augmenter of trains >.y - developing or providing services •in streets not served by trams, and in .districts so sparsely populated as not to< warrant a high capital outlay for Irani ways. It could be said that tramcar rnd. biis were to a great extent, serving two chtferent purposes, but at the ianio iM, they could each aid the f thei. Nowhere had he heard of a decision to increase the number of buses existing tramways, but ui the o. ‘ hand, in some ahoi.i.jn of trams in favour . in so. nreat a public deirund ioi le instatement of trams, that ™umrtpal ont.Vmrities had had to accede to it.