4.
Construction.
the first consideration,
In England one of with Municipal authorities is whether The
widets
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the streets are sufficient to allows
The
The
of tramways, and under Section 9 of and the rules of 71870, Tramways Act Board of Prade, the practice appears to have
of not allowing single lines in
obtained
thoroughfares
harrowver
than livenly three
feet, or double lives in thoroughfares
har -
rower than thirty-livs feet. This rule, to
however
which there are howe
Many
Exceptions
Polained principally by Private Bill, is
based on the assumption that the width
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the tram cars will be six feet, and aims At securing a free space of nine feet six inches, (including the side gutter) on Each side
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of the tramway for the ordinary traffic. Its Sunderstand the tramcars contemplated for
Hong Kong are also six feet wide, the same
restrictions in respect of street widths might
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Apply to the Colony if the conditions traffic were the same. But the conditions
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the traffic are not the same, for in the stong Kong streets the heavy vehicular traffic of
: Scaresly
English towns does not reist. There
a dozen carriages in use in the whole Colony,
And there are no
drays or waggons. I therefore believe that the safety or Convenience of the
stong kong public will not be interfered with
two fect is specially con
ceded, and double lines allowed in streets
if a reduction
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that are as narrow as
thirty feet, or single
lives in streets that are as narrow as twenty
one feet-from Rerbstone to Kerbstone.