AUCKLAND ROAD BUSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 259, 1 November 1932, Page 6

AUCKLAND ROAD BUSES.

Might I .be allowed make an appeal ', through you, «ir, to the Transport Board for the restoration of the Buckland Road and 'Waikowhai bus services and that they be allowed to run right into the city? The residents on this route are anything from one and a quarter to a quarter mile from the nearest tram route. Gillies Avenue, Empire Road, Buckland Road and out to Waikowhai are lonely thoroughfares at night, arid it is not safe"for our daughters and aged people to have to walk these streets after dark of an evening, to say nothing of the inconvenience on a wet night. I appeal to members of the board to traverse this rotrte on foot on a wet, blustery night "and see for themselves what it is like. A bus service «n ; this route would only compete with the tram when it crosses Khyber Pass Road, out of Mountain Road, along Park Road, and a penal . fare could be charged from there to town, and vice versa, to prevent competition with the tramcars. A bus service operates to Victor!* , Avenue, Remuera, which, runs right alongside a tram route until it reaches St. Stephen's Avenue, and we only ask that Buckland Road and Waikowhai residents be granted the 6ame privilege. I feel sure the Transport Board would lose very little by allowing our bus service to be restored. I understand the hospital buses, which run past the Public Hospital, the Mater, Cairnhill. and Awanui Hos-. pitals would be prepared to continue their service to Bucfcland Road and Waikowhai, and the Transport ■ Board, having takenr its ■buses off the route on the ground they were not paying, might reasonably allow a private , company to have a try, particularly when the service is so badly needed. W. E. AREY.