TRAM SERVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 6

TRAM SERVICES.

I would like to invite the Transport Board and the general manager to meet the writer at the Pitt Street section at 5 p.m. any evening to accompany liim to Garnet Road, Grey Lynn. From o p.m. to 5.3.3 p.m. the Zoo trams, they would notice, are like the French railway trucks in time of war—which were marked eight cheveaux, or forty homines, but contained about sixty men* We would quietly wait to notice that from 3.35 p.m. to 5.55 p.m. there are four trams to Ambury's corner and Grey Lynn to only one Zoo, which we would board if we were lucky. In that caee we Av.ould reach Garnet Road by 6.15 p.m., an hour and a quarter after meeting. This has come about by the kindness of the board only since introducing the new service to Westmerc and the alteration in time-tables. Should . the board or any member avail themselves of niv invitation, and if it were possible to get oiear to them on the tram, I would ask why trams to distant suburbs should be curtailed, since passengers to those points are often unabl-3 to board a tram too loaded with intermediate passengers. It appears reasonable that trams which at .present terminate at'Amburys corner should continue to the Zoo terminus m the rush hours, whether the Grey Lyr.n trams continue or not. Before the Westmere trams started we had a twelve-minute service at the Zoo: now the intervals at the top of Garnet Road are eight minutes and nineteen minutes; it seem* feasible that the time-table could be equalised to approximately the same as before without extra trams, except at the rush hour. If it were known that our friends on the Transport Board were on the out-going tram I could promise them a deputation of some hundreds of dissatisfied passengers beyond Ambury'*; corner, and the longer they waited for the return trip the more passengers to convince them would congregate. ' THOS. A. WARD.