Residents living on and near Academy Road have decided to protest to city council against property damage caused by trolley bus vibration.

More than 100 residents of the area, meeting in Kelvin High School Wednesday, attacked the Winnipeg Electric Company for allowing bus drivers to travel at speeds as high as 48 miles an hour, and condemned the city per permitting trolley buses on Academy Road without providing an adequate concrete foundation.

They passed a motion demanding that a concrete foundation eight inches thick be constructed on Academy Road at once. Until this is built the resolution demanded that trolley buses be limited to a 15 mile-an-hour maximum.

A delegation headed by a solicitor will air protests and objections before city council. A protest fund was started at the meeting and a further meeting will be held March 30 for possible formation of an Academy Road Association.

Fraser Gordon presented at Wednesday's meeting, with C. C. Baker, C. F. Rannard and A. Thompson Hay acting as advisors.

The meeting heard charges that vibrations from trolley buses caused windows to crack and ceilings to fall.

"You can feel the bus vibrations right through your feet," one resident said. "Before buses were put on Academy Road the situation was all right. With the trolleys, everything movable in the house shakes. Maybe the solution will be a heavier road bed."

An Elm St. resident said if the road had been properly built, there would be not vibrations from the buses. Buses should be limited to 15 miles an hour. "We pay enough taxes in the River Heights area to insist on this," he said.

Mr. Thomson Hay blamed the city engineer's department. "They had experience with trolley buses on Sargent Ave. and then they allow them to be put on Academy Road where the concrete is not two inches thick."

Mrs. Thomson Hay said parents did not like the buses because of speeds which they travel, "Motorists don't like them because they crowd them." A bus was clocked travelling at 48 miles per hour, she said.

"Why don't buses run down the middle of the street on the heavy concrete and discharge and take on passengers as the street cars did?" Mrs. Thomson Hay asked.

"This protest won't go up in smoke," Mrs. Hay declared. "We can obtain an injunciton. We have got a run-around from the company, city officials and the police force."