Among the continual restless changes of London it is announced that the tram-lines on the Embankment are to go and that trolley-buses with overhead wires are to take their place. Already the trams have disappeared from large parts of west and north London, and in five yea time it.is said there will be no trams left. Already protests are heard against spoiling the Embankment's beauty with overhead wires, But the Transport Board promises that at least the trees shall not suffer. More serious is the case of the bridges which the wires certainly will not beautify.
But what a theme for moralizing on the money spent by one generation on improvements which its successors will tear to pieces. One need not be very old to remember the horse buses, with the extra horse waiting to help the tram up the steeper hills. Then came electric trams, at one time the glory of the LEC. John Burns believed they would be immortal and scoffed at the idea of motor buses competing with them.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds were spent on tram-lines, which are now being filled in and levelled till it is convenient to take them away. The argument for trolley buses is that, their flexibility makes them less of an obstruction to traffic. But one queries this, You do at least know where a tram is going. A trolley-bus simply comes charging all over the place.
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