TRAMWAY MISMANAGEMENT,

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 22 April 1911, Page 9

TRAMWAY MISMANAGEMENT,

'XO THE EDITOR. Sir, — Re the letters that have appeared in your paper ou the above subject, \sith your kind permission I would like to say something from the other side of the fence. I do not think the people who ure making the commotion are at all acquainted with tho conditions the traffic offico Si Wellington is required to compile their roster. The very people who are making the most noiso are the people who cause the so-called mismanagement. This class of people imagine they should have a car running to suit their partioular case, and they either write to th& paper or interview tho Tramway Committee, who generally fill ir with their view, and instruct the traffic office- to accommodate them. Then bscau6o everything does not pan ou'c just what they would like, they do not think they have caused it — oh, no, the traffic office is the scapegoat, and_ has to bear the sans of tho people. Given a free hand the present traffic management is as capable oIS running the servipe_ economically as-any-other in the Dominion. But wmle a certain class of people will insist on saying "they are_ our care, and we want them to run to suit our convenience)" things will be the same under any management. Let them bo less selfish and show that they, really believe what they profess— namely^ economy.^ Any attempt in the past by the traffic office to economise on the. running, has always met with opposition. For in* stance, the only ivay to economise ork several _ Hnes_ would be to^ run them only, to the junction of the main traffic during, slack hours. All but two routes go via Lumbton-quay. This is, of course, by far too m».n\ cars for the people travelling during the greater part of tho day, and' to send some of them down Jervois-quay would be far worse. Should the traffia office attempt to run cars to the junctions only during slack hours, the people would bo up in arms at once._ What is really needed is a free hand given to the traffic office and less heed paid to individual letters_ or requests. Then, again, conceej sion tickets do not teßd to increase revenue, and a comparison of a week this year with one last year is not fair. There are more concession tickets used now, and on some routes thera were none last year, but are in use now. — I am, etc., A TRAM MAN. , Wellington, 18th April, 1911. " "