QUEEN STREET TRAFFIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 268, 12 November 1928, Page 6

QUEEN STREET TRAFFIC.

TRAM AND MOTOR PROBLEM.

(To the Editor. I

I do not regard myself as a heaven-sent transport expert; and I have profound sympathy for Mr. Ford in his difficulties, but I am moved to ask whether the time is not approaching when either motors or trams must be excluded from Queen Street. To catch trams in Queen Street at rush hours is becoming more nerve racking every week owing to the stream of motor cars that rushes past the safety zones. The other evening I hurried down a side street to catch a tram and saw one at the zone. Owing to the motors passing it was impossible for me to make a dash for it, and I had to wait some minutes. Then there is the slow pace of trams in Queen Street. Sometimes it takes as much as five or even ten minutes to go from the bottom or from Shortland Street up to Wellesley Street. Before the commission much was made of the points in which trams are superior to buses and but little (apparently) of the respect in which they are greatly inferior—that if one tram is held up. all are. The slow journev in Queen Street is often most exasperating at the end of the day. Further, owing to the growth of motor traffic, the time spent in sending a tram to the bottom of the street and turning it there is increasing. The streams of traffic moving east and west along Customs Street are interfering more and more with Queen Street traffic, and it is common to see a tram that has just left the bottom safety zone held up at the crossroad points while numbers of motors .so by. All this is addin<* to the time spent in getting home, and is bad for frayed nerves. EPSOM.