SYDNEY'S PASSING TRAMS
"No more trams would be built for Sydney's services, and Hie present rolling stock gradually would be replaced by rholor-buses and trolley-buses." This statement, made by the New South Wales Premier; Mr. Stevens, and reported in the Press, indicates that Sydney has reached not merely the halt stage of "no new tramway track,-'-' but has definitely sounded the retreat from rails to such an extent that no more tramcars will be needed. But though the retreat is in progress, many, years may elapse before the trainxyays filially go. They still enable 3t)6 million passeiigef rides to be taken every year, and to transfer this load from rails to rubber (or, alternatively, to Sydney's electrified railway system) will take time. Mr; Stevens stales- that the tramway assets involved are "more than £8,000,00(3." If the.tramways had been privately owned, their obsolescence would not have worried the taxpayer Or the ratepayer; but the 'replacement of a State-owned transport system of such magnitude becomes a big financial problem. Yet it is only a fraction Of the problem that would be presented if the State railway systems of Australasia entered upon a similar period of decline and fall,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 8
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196SYDNEY'S PASSING TRAMS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 8
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