The Racket on Tacoma Avenue
Local business owners demand the streetcar company silence its noisy, 'flat-wheeled' cars.
Business men today registered an emphatic kick against the car being operated on Tacoma avenue with a flat wheel. The company claims it is running this line at a financial loss and the patrons claim it is giving the poorest possible service and making it as uncomfortable for the people on the street as possible by using a car with a wheel that makes more noise than a boiler shop.
“using a car with a wheel that makes more noise than a boiler shop.”
Public transit noise and infrastructure reliability remain perennial points of friction in Tacoma. While the 'flat wheel' is a relic of steel-on-steel traction, the frustration of local businesses with transit-induced disturbance is a constant rhythm in urban development.
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