BUSES CREATE TRAFFIC: TRAMS NOT WANTED
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THE case for the proposal to make permanent the substitution of buses for 'trams on the Sheffield-Rotherham route, a change made temporarily during, the reconstruction of Tinsley Bridge, was put to Sheffield City Council by Ald. T. W. Bridgland, chairman of the passenger transport committee.
He said the time taken for the round journey from Rotherham to Sheffield and back was 75 mins. by tram and 65 mins. by bus. The number of buses required was 13, compared with 15 trams.. He expected that when the bottleneck at the reconstructed Tinsley Bridge was eliminated, buses would make the round journey in 60 nuns. and only 12 vehicles would be needed.
The number of passengers carried on the service in a month used to be 190,780, but the number travelling by bus was 236,874 a month, an increase of 24 per cent.
Of 7,500 employees at the works where he was employed, 2,000 lived in Sheffield, and 99 per cent, of these workers travelling from Sheffield did not want a reversion to trams on the route.