Beinketa ett Ike
Page 26
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
In 'Bird's Eye View' (CM July 15) The Hawk is obviously blinkered to refer to trams in the past tense, and biased to describe their modus operandi, circa 1929, in order to draw unfavourable comparisons with the bus.
As many European cities have based highly efficient public transport systems on the modern tram, we know that the quiet, smooth gliding contemporary tramcar is far more comfortable than the lurching, diesel smelling bus (much as I love 'em). The safety of railed transport over roadbound is so well documented as to be unassailable, notwithstanding the Life Guard mechanism to prevent anyone actually being run over, a device I have not yet seen fitted to the Fleetline The bluff of the bus having greater flexibility has been called in the inner cities, where