Subject to the ability to get equipment and street improvements, the order of modernization of the Winnipeg Electric Company's transportation system up to and including 1949 was presented Wednesday to the city's street railway committee in a letter from C. H. Dahl, transportation manager.

Following is a summary of the company's projected program:

Chiefly on account of manufacturing delays and the lack of suitable payments a good percentage of the company's plans for this year will be curtailed. This includes a 25 trolleybus line planned for Salter and McGregor sts.

Eleven gas buses have been received since March and 14 others are on order as is 25 trolley buses. The buses will be used to improve service on existing bus routes and 12 of the trolley buses on an Ellice Ave. line to replace the motor bus service. The remainder would be used to supplement service on the Salter St. route and the Notre Dame-Logan line and on Logan between Salter and Arlington sts.

The 50 buses represent an investment of $820,000.

In 1947 street car operation along Academy Rd. should be replaced by 35 trolley buses and Stafford St. by ten gasoline buses. And McGregor St. will be given attention. The company is contemplating ordering 40-50 trolley buses for delivery in 1947 for McGregor and Academy at an estimated cost of $15,000 each. The projects would involve considerable ...

The Stafford St. motor bus line would become a north and south crosstown line from Pembina highway at Parker Ave. all the way to Logan Ave. and east on Logan to Main St. This would absorb the service on Sherbrook St. between Portage and Logan Ave. and the Logan Ave. bus service between Sherbrook and Main St. making a readily accessible service past the hospital centre.

In 1949 the Kildonan - Morse Place routes would be converted to free-wheeling vehicles, and the city would probably escape a special paving program with this project as well.

Dealing with the entire program, Mr. Dahl estimated that additional costs in connection with trolley buses will average $3,000-$5,000 per vehicle for trolley overhead.

The company intends to remove the car tracks on Selkirk Ave. west of Arlington St., replacing them with gasoline buses. The new route will probably run along Selkirk Ave. to Arlington St., south on Arlington to Dufferin Ave. and east on Dufferin to Main St. The Selkirk Ave. street cars would operate around a loop bounded by Selkirk Ave. on the south, Mountain Ave. on the north, Arlington on the south and Main on the east.

Whether or not the street car service remaining after the outlined conversion program has been carried out should be continued or replaced by free-wheeling trolley or motor buses will be decided when the program is completed, Mr. Dahl said. If street car operation is continued, new cars might be purchased.