TRAM-CARS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1965, 11 June 1880, Page 3

TRAM-CARS.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sib, — : I hare been a pretty frequent traveller by tram-cars in the old country and elsewhere, and it certainly ha* always appeared to me that those cars that have their openings straight behind, in fact, like those of ordinary omnibuses, are both the safest and most convenient. There are two advantages connected with cars built on this principle. A man getting in or out of the „ car does so in the wake of the car, nand is in no danger of being run over by “passing vehicles. He can get in or out the car when it is in motion if he is at all active without the slightest danger. Of coarse such cars are not reversible, i,e., they cannot be used to go either way at pleasure, but that is a mere matter of arrangement for tbe Tramway Company. An accident such as happened to the little son to Dr. House the other day would not be posaib’e in cars each as I have alluded to. The saving of time, too, with them is very considerable. It is almost impossible to get into the cars here when in motion. In other places active young men, on their way to their offices, jump on board, and never think of pulling up the train. The alteration from side to back entrances might easily be made in the Christchurch cars, the stair to the roof being made to run up on each side of the entrance. Yours, &c., A PASSENGER.