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Published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St., N., Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Watâ€" erloo Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. _ Residents who ride buses will probably be aware of the comfort the new arrivals may proâ€" vide but it is doubtful whether their newness or out ward appearance will drum up new business. There is still the one hope left â€" the proposed route changes. The ‘"new look" will probably have little effect until then. Afterall, the colour doesn‘t really matter as long as you get where you are going with the least amount of trouble. For example, Sudbury had their buses (of similar style to the ones we just received) paintâ€" ed entirely in pastel orange. The change in their system commands attention and will likeâ€" ly be remembered by visitors as well. It is too late now to consider such a drastic change to our transit system and it is also too late to criticize the colour scheme we did get even though the red and orange are over ridden by the considerably greater sections of silver aluminum and bland beige. We could have hoped for a more drastic or exciting approach to the ‘"new look‘", someâ€" thing which could have set us apart from other cities like our trolleys had done in the past. . The "new look" is nothing exciting and it is doubtful whether it will cause people to abanâ€" don their cars and scurry to the nearest bus stop. Obviously the new route scheduling will be the deciding factor in the fate of the Kitchenerâ€" Waterloo transit system. This is the first step. To come yet are "new look‘‘ signs labelling the transit system and fancy brochures which will be inviting resiâ€" dents to try the new routes to go into effect this summer. se The consultants were hired to bring a "new look‘"‘ to the transit system. It changed from the modest green and beige colour scheme to silâ€" ver aluminum and beige with comparatively thin strips of orange and red. Waterloo isn‘t in much of a position to comâ€" plain, since we are only tenants of the system, but the new buses roaring up and down King Street this week are a let down. The novelty and quaintness the system may have provided Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo had to be set aside for practical reasons. The transit system is far from operating at its limit and the PUC decided it was time to do something about it. So the trolleys are hustled off the scene as too expensive to keep up and the "new look" in the transit system is ushered in at the suggesâ€" tion of hired consultant. + . Without bringing the multiâ€"sided issue of pollution and practicality, the trolley system was novel and provided interest to the first time visitor. It even offered a fond memory for those who had not been in Waterloo for a decade or two and returned to find the system still in operation. The trolleys, which were taken out of the Kitchener transit working force this week were undoubtably a distinctive part of our city. We were among the few cities left in Canada who could still boast of a trolley system. It is not hard to believe that a few years from now people will be saying ‘"remember when the trolleys..." 4 Waterioo Chronicie, Wednesday, March 28, 1973 L8 In Canada: one year $8; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ESTABLISHED 1854 Wendy Herman, editor That‘s the celebration part. Now for some conâ€" demnation. With the disâ€" appearance of the snow, we can see what Nature so gracefully covered for a few monthsâ€"all the filth that man has been sweeping unâ€" der the white carpet. This year, the whole dream seems real, so crack open that crock of vintage stuff, do a little softâ€"shoe shuffle. and go out and kiss the mud in your back yard. It may be the last time you can celebrate such a miracle for the next fifteen Marches. Maybe I‘d feel differently if I were a farmer,. but I could have kissed that first crow I saw, drifting over the drifts in February. That muchâ€"maligned creaâ€" ture. the crow. is to Canâ€" adian winterâ€"haters what the warm breath of a maiden is to a juvenile just before his first kiss. ; Each time winter comes around, which it seems to do about every four months, I think we all have a little secret dread that this time it might never end, that winter will go on and on and on until we have shrivelled into arthritic, gnomeâ€"like creatures with permanently dripping noses and a perâ€" petual cough. What is there to celebâ€" rate? Why, man, it‘s Spring. Not only by the calendar, which happens every year, but by the signs, which hap~ pen about once a decade. The grass is green And birds are seen The cat wants out And I‘ve lost my gout The snow is gone I canksee my lawn No mounds of ice How awfully nice I want to sing, It must be spring. There. A Canadian who does not celebrate the actual as well as official arrival of the vernal equinox should be run out of the country as a baseâ€"born traitor. Hereby a few notes of observation, â€" condemnation and celebration. It‘s a junkâ€"man‘s paraâ€" & $ Bill Smiley That‘s my condemnation bit for this week. Now. some observations on these pecuâ€" liar days in which we live. I‘m sure the distillers and vintners wouldn‘t quarrel with such a practice, as long as it didn‘t cost them. In fact, they‘d be ahead. Some of those fancy bottles must cost as much as it does to produce the poison that goes into them. A couple of bigâ€"league American baseball pitchers decided,. according to the news, to swap not only wives but families. Then one of them tried to back out. The other was indignant. "I thought he was my buddy,"~ In the matter of bottles, government could show a lead that would not imperil a single politician, which seems to be the Canadian Dream. It could insist that liquor and wine bottles be returned for use over and over again. But when it comes to takâ€" ing on a big guy, a vast corâ€" poration, government stands by, deploring and wringing its hands, and occasionally administering a slap on the wrist with a velvet glove, in the form of a tiny fine that makes the comâ€" pany‘s directors roar laughâ€" ter before they go happily back to pouring their poisons into the environment. Strange, isn‘t it, how govâ€" ernments respond? Let a litâ€" tle guy burn some leaves in his back yard and the law is right on his back. He‘s broken the byâ€"law, he‘s a rotten polluter, he‘s a disâ€" grace to the community, and he _ shall _ be _ punished, promptly and ruthlessly. dise: _ rags, bones _ and bottles. A few companies who appear to have some semblance of conscience are announcing plans for recycling of cans and bottles but the great majority of canners and bottlers are rolling right ahead with their apparent project of covering Canada to a depth of one foot, from coast to coast, with empty cans. and nonâ€" returnable bottles. \_ Perhaps if the street was widened motorists could clearly see the island at Bridgeport Road and avoid hitting it. To date, there have been approxiâ€" mately 10 accidents involvâ€" ing that island. There are no more bands from all over Canada and Those of us who use the street at peak traffic times know what a problem moâ€" torists have in dodging pudâ€" dles and kids on bikes. The very narrowness of the street lends itself more to causing an accident than does a wider street. Widening Albert to three lanes which would be two wider lanes and a turning lane at intersections would change the street quite a bit. But that should be nothing new to ‘‘Albertians since the street has been changing slowly for years. Why does the street have to be widened? The answer to that question lies at the north end of Albert Street. Here we find two universiâ€" ties and several new subâ€" divisions that are bringing more traffice to the street. Dear Editor, The following thoughts are written in response to some of the letters that apâ€" peared in the Record and the _ Chronicle â€" regarding the widening of Albert Street. LETTER TO THE EDITOR It‘s one that has never appealed much to me. There have been occasions, and I know it‘s mutual, when I would have swapped my wife for a secondâ€"hand pair of hip waders. Wifeâ€"swapping, particularâ€" ly in suburbia, is no new phenomenon. These chaps merely extended the cusâ€" he wailed. Save Albert St. â€" from what? Wife swapping? It‘s not for me \wstil In fact some residents would welcome the change. Mrs. Jane Epp, 53 Cardinal Cres. formerly of Albert St. Although it may appear that all residents along Alâ€" bert are opposed to the posâ€" sible widening, this is not the complete picture. Some _ residents _ along Albert Street have already done just those things. Save Albert Street a its residents from th'. thing _ called _ "future shock""? Nothing can do that except the foresight to accept the inevitability of change and the concern to do something constructive about it. l 3 For exampleâ€" plant new trees and shrubs to replace the old and rotten or those that might be cut down. the USA marching down Albert Street to the summer Band Tattoo in the park; no more street lights with fluted shades that allowed a discreet farewell kiss; no more waking up to the sound of ‘horses clipâ€"clopâ€" ping to the Waterloo Marâ€" ket building. So why be afraid of one more change? It can‘t touch a memory anyway. Save Albert Street? From what? Traffic? There is lots already. â€" Save Albert Street from increased safety? Hardly! Well, I look around at the wives of all my memfriends. They‘re lovely girls, the wives, every one of them. However, I‘m one of those oldâ€"fashioned chaps who can see little advantage to deserting the fryingâ€"pan for the fire. And you know what? [‘ll bet my wife won‘t underâ€" stand that as a compliment. But for another woman? â€"XmAPQ _ |