ELECTRIC TRAMS.
fTIJE DENSER .OR XJPPBK'BEGK' DA-RSi
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. An. American visitor, writing r.to tho Post re the Wellington electee" tram service, says: “ I Wflifil
(direct: attention to what appears a serious danger with the upger-dctk cars. If any. exciting street should cause those riding on. fcio top to project their heads oyer tits rail on the side on which the golfs are while the car wa9 in rapid v SQi'v. ftion Wellington’s population iwoqid -certainly; be decreased by the jusnhen of heads so projected. rrheTnjgf, certainly should be an extension 5i&Pa greater height on' the p.ole^or 1 3ass9> guard which now. eisists. X hPPe||ji| -however,- on my next visit to WeMgg|:j! ington to see no * -top deckers-’ 1 Elx-W-:| cept in the Antiquaited Sigly ca5S; -xSM Jlohart, I do not know; of any ■ city / j in Australia ohAtaterica where these ,* Bars have not long since been, dpoo ; away with.. Xu idois connection "•*•s§§s Would, I think, hei .satisfactory.-v to* citizens ,to know rv/hat would happed : * rfco passengers on the top, deck if - a |»
!■ live * ' overhead .-wire .broke .ansi • | came writhing like s&“- li iaraongsS them. .Oil, any. large [where .traffic Ist heavy wires do P? and fta beso exposed to [them as cg..|p the -Cop or a car does not seem ade jj® Sizable thing.” ' : ; S deferring to ’ilia conduct or i. says : . MOi the top-deckers, with 'double sefe of passengers bo dck'Vo With, the strain on one man is smea. great, and they; cannot be held t®oft «« ally ’ responsible for any. iinay dent .while they are on .toj> tainnhoj, fares, giving change; etc.- I never seen a service so hard conductors collecting fares, ggggg pickets on top and belQW* smd -swit*. , ching at junctions.’*
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1382, 17 February 1905, Page 2
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