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Christmas IT was a pity that, having I wished their passengers a Happy Christmas, the railways should have spoiled the illusion by delivering them at their destinations at anything but the scheduled times. On Christmas Eve, the Midday Scot from Euston to Glasgow was run in three sections. The second portion arrived at Glasgow exactly three hours late ; the third section, which caught up the second at Crewe, was an "also ran." Yet still, in the face of self-conviction, the railways declare that they can " suitably " handle all the traffic available !
Eve on the Railway Spells Traffic Chaos
Bus Services Not InTT is a common belief that in ferior to Trams in 'foggy weather tram services Foggy Weather . are more reliable than buses, owing to their being railbound. A report from Manchester, however, concerning the bad period of fog last November, dispels this idea. During the nine days when the city was fogbound the percentage decrease in revenue worked out at n8
7.3 for the trains and 7.6 for the buses, allowing for an increase in bus receipts on account of the Haughton Green conversions. Compared with the same period a year earlier, the decrease in revenue amounted to £2,527 by the trains and only £1,803 by the buses.
Amplifiers on Police MEWCASTLE City police Cars Help Road I `I were using traffic directional
Users . . . . motorcars to regulate traffic in
the more congested areas during the Christmas shopping season. So far only two cars are equipped with amplifiers, but if the present experiment is satisfactory, as it is considered likely to be, more cars will be so fitted. Instructions to "line-up," "stop that creeping over the studs," " pull in," and such like orders had the effect early on of causing people to look about for the place where the strident orders were coming from, but the novelty soon wore off and very useful service to road users and pedestrians is the result. CarilageDrives Which r, RIVERS who, in narrow
are Used by Casual roads, use private entrances Drivers as turning places, should recol lect that, although they may be a convenience, drivers have by no means a right to their use, as many of them seem to think. They should be careful not to bump into the gates or to drive off leaving them open if they found them shut.
bus passengers may legally be prevented from boarding or leaving vehicles that are restricted to picking-up and setting down passengers, either at the city terminus or outside the city boundaries, has been raised at Glasgow. Although the operator has no legal powers in this matter, if passengers were allowed to leave buses within the
Glasgow
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city boundaries the operator's licence would be jeopardized. Asked what would happen if a passenger insisted on his right to leave the bus, an official said that the conductor would report him to the company and he would not be allowed to travel again.
Travelling at a speed IN" One Hears" we referred of 90,000 Miles per a short time ago to the theory Second that the molecules of air in an
inflated tyre travel at 17 miles per minute, but this speed is insignificant when compared with that of the stream of electrons used to investigate the lubricating properties of a graphoid surface formed on the fac.e of a bearing by employing colloidal graphite. In this case, the speed is 90,000 miles per second. Such a figure as this causes man's achievements in the creation of records to appear trivial.