Mr. Gilbert Peet's letter to last week insisting on unity's need of more tram facil seems to have been written out enough attention for the large additions of new routes which Mr. Hamilton recommends and some of which the Council 1 ready to permit. Some of those extensions are intended to draw trafic from Nanking Road creating new parallel routes, Well and good, if they do so. What we venture to think has not yet been sufficiently considered, and where Mr, Hamilton's exclusive training as a tramway man makes him an unsafe judge, is that the centre of the Settlement will never carry more than a certain number of vehicles at a certain speed. That must be recognized. Against it, this centre is small compared with the outlying districts where people most reside, where transport is most needed and least found. Let them get to the edge of the business quarter and it is not far to walk to their offices. But they have to get there. The trams will never bring them, because they. need an expensive overhead installation which-would be lying practically idle for several hours every day and is therefore not even considered by a man trained to think only
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