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TROLLEY SERVICE ON WEST SIDE NEXT WEDNESDAY
Cars Will Not Cross Canal Bridge-Passengers Will Take Transfers
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 5 May 1921]
“The street car service on the west side of the canal will be inaugurated on Wednesday of next week,” so stated Alex. Griffiths, one of the prominent shareholders of the Niagara, Welland and Lake Erie Railway Company, to the Tribune-Telegraph yesterday.
“The contractors tell us,” continued Mr. Griffiths, “the tracks will be completed to the bridge next Tuesday. The cars are ready, and the motors which were found to be defective have been replaced.”
The car service on the west side has been long deferred, and not a few have given up all hope of ever seeing it in being.
At the council meeting on Tuesday night Mayor Diffin brought in a report that indicated he was entirely without hope.
Ald. Scott in view of the general symptoms was somewhat more hopeful and the proposal to apply to the Railway Commission for an order to compel the Company to inaugurate the service was laid over to await developments.
In view of the statement of Mr. Griffiths, immediate action seems likely.
It will be of interest to patrons of the trolley to learn that cars are not going to run over the canal bridge. North ward cars will stop at the bridge shanty. The bridge is thought to be too narrow and traffic too congested to permit of operation of cars on it.
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