Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-14

fate Of street car riders, the situation
may not be % appalling to many as
1t Is to some. At any rate, 1t is obviated
If the bus draws up close enough to the
curb to prevent any other vehicle from
getting between it and the curb.
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The related questions Of fresh air
and gas discharge will be met by many
transit patrons for the hr3t time In
rather long lives.
Whatever might have been said about
and particularly against street cars,
there always seemed to be enough air
in them for all practical purposes.
Even when crowded to the doors, with
people standing so that not another
could be jammed into the aisle, street
cars did have enough cubic contents to
give each passenger fair quota Of air.
Then there was the incessant stop.
OF passengers every other block. All
this let in fresh air and stale air out.
1t Is not exactly the same with bus.
Complete closure, in most cases, of
the entire front and rear windows pre-
vents good circulation of air. Even
when the windows are up they are not
rs big, nor so many, rs in q street car.
The result is that when many persons
who are used to street cars get to riding
on buses for the first time regularly,
the chances are that some of them are
going to complain about the lack of air.
We have often wondered why q very
small window could not be set in the
back window, q window within a window,
so that it might be opened and thus
tend to create 4 circulation of air, with
out at the same time causing q draft
down any ones precious neck.
As for gas or exhaust, rather, in
buses, that Is q matter which does not
bother much when all the windows are
shut. 1t is in Spring and Summer, when
windows are open and one desires as
much fresh air rs possible. seeing that
Nature has tempered 1t herself In her
inimitable way, that q blast of exhaust
hits the innocent passenger in the face
Many will wonder why this foul smell
ing emanation cannot be carried OF to
the rear of the vehicle sufficiently far
back so that the suction created by the
stopping Of the vehicle could not draw
1t squarely into the bus, as it so often Is
what Is one mans meat Is another
mans poison. Some riders seem not to
notice it, others make terrible faces
others try to hold their nose and still
others attempt to move their seat. Often
the latter is an impossible procedure
and We have been told that persons
have even gone to the extent of getting
OF such buses solely to get rid of such
noxious fumes.
These objections are cited because
all In all, the motor bus is the best
way of transporting modern city jewellers
from place to place, and there is no
particular necessity for permitting such
conditions to remain in force forever
For the passengers, after all, are the real
judges. They get the benefits Of good
transportation and II there are any
small disabilities which might be ironed
out they should make themselves vocal
until they are ironed out. Any one
who does not like to smell exhaust all
the way home. after q hard days work,
ought to say 50, but say it to the right
parties! Street car and bus patrons,
along with the rest of mankind, too
often complain to the wrong portions.
The man at the wheel knows the con-
dition as well as you do, but he can do
nothing about 1t. Why complain to
him? II you have any friends among
the officials. invite them to take q ride
with you and explain to them patiently
what you do not like. 1t would be an
interesting experiment. anyway.