This will necessitate a change ix the lighting system of the avenue. At present illumination comes from standards erected on eight foot islands in the middle, but in the new scheme lights will be suspend. ed across the street from standards planted on the islands in the pat' {ng spaces, in very much the same way as the lights are now suspend-vantage from which to taunt the constable on patrol, diving safely over the boundary where he cannot follow ther, ax soon as he showy signs of resentment, We may couple with this road improvement the new enterprises Jing western district to the contre of the town, One of these services has been in operation for some time from Jessfield Park to the Garden Bridge, fand another was inaugurated Tuesday, running from Brenan Pices to the same spot, vid Edinthurgh Road, Avenue Haig, Avenue Avenue Edward Vil, and the These express "buses run during the rush hours. "One seat, one fare" is their motto. Stand: ing ix not allowed, and 20 persons can be accommodated with comfort.
The Excellent New Modet The type of "bus used on these rans and also on service No. 9 from Lay Road to St. George is new to Shanghai, They are Tilling Stevens gear-driven pneumatic-tyred chassis, fitted with bodies designed by the Technical Adviser of the company ind executed by Mr. Peach of Weeks & Ca. They have entrance door in the centre of the near side of the body, which permits fof the conductor covering all his fares easily, the fares being on two sides of him, Travellers by the "onses also do not have to fight their way down the whole length the vehicle, should they want to got cout when seated furthest from the door. Twenty of these "buses are now on routes or under construcy tion. When more are ready, 9 route will be extended from Lay Road to the Point. This will pro-ably be done about the end of this month or the beginning of next.
'The much greater comfort of those buses led a representative of this paper to ask whether it was intended later to replace the old petrol electric machines working on most of the routes, with this new type, He was told' "Most certainly not." It is possible that, as the bodies on the petrol electric machines come up for reconstruc: tion, they may be replaced by odic suchos are used onthe new "buses, but that the petrol-electric machines themselves give excellent service. An average of about 45,000 persons travel by them every. day. The record of persons carried in one day is as high as 80,000.
000 in One These petrol-electric machines carry 28 seated and 20 standing they may carry only these, our representative was informed. ' How it, then, that one has the common feeling that the whole average 45,000 are travelling with one on the same bus? Is it-an illusion?
When one gets out looking like a warning to the young, bearing the appearance of one who has suffered from his journey down the, "broad and easy path,"—when one totters down the steps from a crowded "ous and looks back at the seething humanity remaining tu the vehicle, one is inclined to believe that it la not, A traveller recently counted the number of passengers with hint on the back platform alone. They were twenty-three. Yet only 20 standing passengers are allowed on any "bus!
The fault doos not lie altogether with the officials of the company cho have to look after these things, the difiqalty of enforcing such rules being well known. But it i¢ to their disadvantage that the comfort of the new lines, where 10 fanding at all is allowed, shows up the acute discomfort, in some instances, in the old lines where standing is permitted to excess.
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