CITY TERMINAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 146, 22 June 1937, Page 9

CITY TERMINAL.

TRANSPORT SERVICES.

CONFERENCE IN CAMERA.

QUESTIQN OF CHARGES.

A conference between representatives of motor bus and service car companies and a special sub-committee of the Auckland City Council was held last evening to discuss the charges proposed by the Auckland C'ity Council for use of the new municipal transport terminal at the old railway station site. Mr. W. T. Anderton, M.P., presided, and the conference was also attended by the general manager of the Auckland Transport Board, Mr. A. E. Ford, the town clerk, Mr. J. Melling. the city engineer, Mr. ,T. Tyler, and the superintendent of t.raftie, Mr. C- Bland. The proceedings were in camera, but it. was announced after the conference that a tentative scale of charges had been considered, and that representatives of the transport organisations were of the opinion that the council should bear some of the cost of running the terminal. It was decided that the matter be further discussed at another conference between the sub-committee and two representatives each from the motor bu.s ami service car companies. Services to be Routed.

Under the transport station scheme, provision is made for a station building to accommodate offices of the various transport services, with waiting rooms, cafeteria and shops. There will lie a roofed platform incorporating 29 loading docks—2l for bus service and eight for service cars. All services are to be routed, so as to give entrance to the station by utilising the existing concrete road off Britoinart Place. It is proposed that after discharging and loading the western and eastern services shall be dispatched by way of the northern end of Commerce Street, and that the other services shall return and gain egress by the way they enter, thus avoiding onimerce Street and Customs Street. In addition to the loading docks space is to be provided for the simultaneous parking of eleven buses. The Auckland City Council has entered into the leasing of the old railway station site for u period of 25 years at a rental of £3000 a year, with the right of renewal for two successive periods of 21 years. The cost of development of the scheme was estimated at £.'10,210. It is estimated that 459 buses and 51 service cars are dispatched from the city daily, the buses handling 14.400 passengers and the service cars 500 passengers. It was estimated that a charge of Od per round trip for buses. 1/1 per round trip for service cars, and (id for the parking of cars would cover the commitments.