ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS IN OXFORD.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I have just seen Mr. Croker's letter in your last issue and am in entire agreement with all he says. I have lived in the Banbury Road for nearly twenty years, and have no, doubt that standards for overhead wires will spoil what is, as Mr. Croker remarks, one of the few approaches to Oxford which is not a disgrace to the place. Suburban Oxford is, on the whole, a lamentable spectacle, owing to the shortsighted- ness of pretty well everyone concerned in its development. The municipal authorities, at any rate, are evidently determined that, so far as represented by them, Oxford shall not cease to be the proverbial "home of lost causes "—in this case taking up a thing just when it is being superseded elsewhere. May I utter a plea for a trial at least of a system of moderate-sized motor-buses first ? They could ply on various routes, and if proved inadequate conld be superseded by an electric tramway
system later.—I am, Sir, &c., R. HARTLEY. Grand Hotel and Eurhaus Brlinig.
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