RACECOURSE TRAFFIC

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15669, 6 June 1916, Page 10

RACECOURSE TRAFFIC

kxp.la>:aho>: of tisamwat DELAYS. At yesierd}«s''s meeting of tho Tramway Br.ard, Mi S. A. Staples asked -.vhether the Board was trying to lose tho Ricearton racocoursc traffic. On. Thursday, 011 the occasion of races at Biccarton, he said, the cara were held up half an hour through tho laying down of lines, and 011 Saturday evening there had been another delay through tho failure of tho rurrent. "If -svb <!ou't stop theeso things wo rial! lose our racecourse trafßi;," iHeolared Mr Staples, who asked the Board's executive staff to look iuto the matter. On Saturday morning, bo alleged, tho traffic wae slovenly. Crowds of people were waiting in tho Square till tho ciirs for tho racecourse were brought from near W'amer'fl. Ono car ought <0 run in while another ran out. Mr T. B. Davoy endorsed Mr StaplcuVi re';;:;.rks. He was one of tho unfortunates .•■•ho v.-sa stuck up 011 both, occasions, tb<i firot for three-quarters of aji hour, tho second lor half, imi hoar. For two days in. bucccb-r-ion (be. race oars were held np, and on tho Saturday night the weather waa oxcrnciating--7 cold. If the Board wished, to lt«?p its race l iifjic it would have to consult the interests cf the. racoftorra hotter. Tt would l>e in tbo lii:.ird!s interest to borrow pjoncy to dnpli- !.■■■ U* the Riccarton line. Something must done, for it was not fair to hold up thousanda of tho public on two occasions on two dr.ve. The .general .manager (Mx F. - Thompson) slid tho traffic manager waa in no way responsible for tho delays. .The trouble on the Thursday night, -tyns duo. to an'ordinary RVcwton car pulling down the' overhead wires jat the hospital. Expedition was used in remedying the trouble. On tho Saturday night tho t.roublo originated in tho powpc house. This matter was being investigated. With regard to tho Saturday morning trouble, the care oouJd not be despatched just when the public liked, a® they hid to run iu conjunction with tho cars further up tho track, Mid tcn-minuto intervals had. to be adopted.