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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19599, 11 June 1935, Page 6

Disappearing Tramcars. —The Alan- ' Chester corporation Transport Committee has approved of its engineer’s report, in which it was recommended that the existing tram service,, operating along one of the arterial roads lie abandoned and that trolley-buses be substituted. The engineer stated that tramway receipts on this particular route had been steadily decreasing during lhe last three years. In addition the permanent way on certain sections of the route was worn out. The cost of a double-deck tram-car to seat 80 passengers was £2OOO, and a double-deck tram-car to scat 52 passengers £IBOO. The latest type motor buses to scat 52 passengers cost £l»uu each. The weekly revenue a biAs was £ i 6, and a Irani £34. Thu engineer produced figures showing that in Ihe aggregate a motor-bus was capable of doing the same amount of work as a tram of much greater seating capacity, and he also pointed out that 33.81 per cent, of all the tramway undertakings in the country (excluding the London Passenger Transporl Board) had been abandoned during the last five years.