TRAMWAY TIME-TABLE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2414, 20 March 1915, Page 9

TRAMWAY TIME-TABLE

NEW. SERVICE ON MONDAY MANY'- IMPROVEMENTS MADE V .'A new time-table for the tramway Services in the Oity and suburbs wiil jba; introduced on Monday.. Generally :tha effect of it should be for tho greater comfort of - the people using tho cars, Sand for :the more efficioijt running of sthe service.' ; . , One of the innovations will be, the pse:of. route numbers!' Cars going by si'certain route''-will show in a prominent place in front of (he car, the number denoting that route.- For instance, /cars going through Cburtenay Place .and Lambton Quay will show Number 1. ■.This number will be . common. to all [Cars ; running through these' streets rwith the exception .of those going •.through the': tunnel, which will sho\v [the number '2. Vivian Street cars will Pshflw 4, and'-so ori?" : The nuinber 3 bs "left blank in. the isohedule v being jreserved ■ for the new route over *ConIsMW? - Street to Kilhirnie when that lime is laid. In addition to these num-i'bei-s 'the"cars~\nU"still"'sGow' {■Bent : ■ destiilation signals". ' The' route ■numbers will be shown at all the prin-fcipal-stoppm": plaoes.onlenamelled no-' . jtice' boards, but the boards have not fhefin .delivered- yet 'by the. contractor 'supplying them; and for the present tho information will be supplied bv printed j jcard notices to >be put ill all waiting x tehods. . .. ; The groat,reform t<j be introdnced by. tte new 'tiine-tahle inll he the" provijsionof increased services, on-all-routes l at-'the busy, hours; of the"day.' - It would ; appear, that the Department "liad feou'ght ' jto forestall the Goverhmeht regulations lagainst ovor-crowding. . The .. .heaviest , loading "through""the .tiinnel—Will serve as an example.- •Between•4.ls p.m. and 6.31, p.m. forty-two.'cars. ' .will; be run. througli the ..tunnel from. Cfeurtenay .'Place/ ' This' means'' ' -that •there; will be'about a -three-minute-seW !,vice and that .cars Trill go through the. 'tunnel from either end at tho. rato. of iabout one in every minute'and a'hilf.' 'This is considered to be -the. utmost 'cajpacity of the tunnel.. Tie . present-rush' jhour : rate 'is one car in every two (minutes through the tunnel.'ln "'the' jsamoiway the mid-day .services will he' accrjased, • . ; ■':ui,' N-Tjie' boroughs have. been, given ...the services they havo_ asked' for. . The au- ' ithorities at lvarori and Miramar have' .'h6en: consulted, and the new schedules . :for _ th'esej.Toutes are - the • result "of "an iamioable areane'ement'. '. .This' .service,", lit is hoped, will be satisfactory to all [parties. - ; • ' . ' . lias, always been' a good deal jof • criticism.: about the trams : on the•land Bay,. Qonstable Street,_and. Newtown lines' all coming along the principal line of their, routes at the same •minutes. In the new.schedule the.cars., "have- been'-spaced to giye'a regular i f juept. service on the common ■ line of iS" 1 j' as or ' ns j- aI ! C6 > ou Adelaide fßoad. Of course it.is not always posjsible to. preserve the,/stated, interval be■tween cars, for;'a:.OTaitin'g crbwd-:.will. ; usually take t'he first car, causing it to be delayed- allqwing.-'a, car : behind;, to overtake it. However, . leaving the .human element in passengers and tramrway men out of. account, the arrange-' cment Of the cars on. these lines should . iprove- to ;bo ,well nigh' perfect. j, ii Pocket time-table issued , ■ara prominently displayed on the out- " ;lMM,frpfl.fr;page. Inside'there is a .'good ;deaJ- ; of_ general information teisdes "'tbe' idetailed. .semces . on"all. routes..- -The itirries- are -given for' the' Sunday'morn-OTg-'.'cars-j-for'S the "early ":moniiii'g.. : 'cars-, Snd,fte iajt-cars.,to the City on aH lines. . : ...: •