For Years students have tramped their way up Cable Car Alley to the cable car, and every year the tramping has increased.

Now at peak hours the tramp is reduced to a shuffle as a queue extends back to Lambton Quay.

The Cable Car facilities are fast reaching maximum passenger capacity.

And what plans has the Wellington City Council for dealing with the overflow of the future? Salient asked the council, and Salient was told—none.

When the council took over the cable car in 1946 from the private company that originally built it there was a 100-seater car in blueprints. But no more was heard of it.

Abandoned

"Various types, of cars" were being considered by the council transport department about eight years ago "for the modernisation of the cable car." One, designed right down to the indirect strip lighting and pink ceilings, was a light and strong metal car designed to carry 110 people. The present car carries only 75.