TRAM STOPS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20025, 5 September 1930, Page 6

TRAM STOPS.

PROPOSED CHANGES. MONTH'S TRIAL TO BE GIVEN. Recently a deputation from the Canterbury Automobile Association waited on the Christchurch Tramway Board with a request that with a view to speeding up traffic in certain areas a number of compulsory tram stops Bhould be abolished, for the reason that as the by-law now stood it was necessary for motor-cars to come to a halt behind trams proceeding in the same direction, with the result that much delay was caused.

A reply has been received to the effect that the Board's Works and Traffic Committee had decided to adopt all the changes recommended by the deputation with the exception of Tuam street (Colombo street), Rugby street (Papanui road), and Jerrold street (Lincoln road). Tlio new conditions were to be given a trial for a month and would commence on October Ist.

The following is a list of the present compulsory stops with the changes recommended:—

CHANGES RECOMMENDED. Colombo street (13). Tennyson street—Compulsory slow down but no compulsory stop. Wordsworth street. Moorhouse avenue—Slow down "in" journey only. St. Asaph street—Slow down. Tuam street—Compulsory stop. Lichiield street. Cashel 6treet. Square. Armagh street. Kilmore street, Salisbury street—Slow down. Bealey avouue. Dean street —Slow down.

Victoria and Fapanul road (6). Kilmore Btrcet —Slow downSalisbury street—Slow dorm. Bealey avenue. Eugby street—Compulsory stop. Leinstcr road. Ilarewood road.

High street, Ferry road, and Sunnier road (12). Cuslicl Btrcet. Lichfield street. Madras street—Slow down. Barbadoes street—Slow down. Fitzgerald avenue. Lancaster street. Smith street—Slow down. Bamford street—Slow down. Jit. Pleasant (out only). Eedcliffs. Clifton./ Sumner Post Office.

Oxford terrace and Biccarton road (7). Cashel street. Hospital. Clarence road. Clyde road—Slow down. Church corner—Slow down. Sockburn. Racecourse.

Moorhouse avenue and Lincoln road (3). Eailway station. Antigua street. Jerrold street—Compulsory stop. Bealey avenue. No 16 route (1). Manchester street—Slow down.

Worcester street (7). Manchester street. Latimer square—Slow down. Barbadoes street—Slow down. Fitzgerald Avenue —Slow down Stanmore road. Aldwin's ,road. Ollivier's road—Slow down.

Cashel street (0). Manchester street.. Madras street—Slow down. Barbadoes street—Slow down. Fitzgerald avenue—Slow down, Stanmore road. Aldwin'3 road.

New Brighton Lino (1) George street—Slow down".

Stamaoro road and Burwood Line (5).

Armagh street—Slow down. Worcester street. Stanmore road bridge. Tweed street—Slow down. Bunvood Church—Slow down,

Fendalton road (2). Lismore Lodge—Slow down. Fendalton Railway—Slow down,

Opawa road (2). Waltham road.

Wilson's road—Slow down.

Cashmere Hills (2) Gwyiifa—Slow down. ,

Cashmere stop (in journey)

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