COMPULSORY TRAM STOPS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 9 September 1930, Page 8

COMPULSORY TRAM STOPS.

REDUCING THE NUMBER. At the request of the Canterbury Automobile Association, the Christchurch Tramway Board has decided to reduce the number of compulsory stops. Yesterday the Works and Traffic Committee submitted the following report : , Compulsory stops were instituted from time to time at the request of motorists and others in order that traffic across tram routes would be protected from collision with non-stop-pins: trams. The present law provides that motorists must not pass a stationary tram-car. This is to protect the pedestrian boarding or alighting from the tram-car. It has the effect of hold, ing up traffic on tram routes considerably, consequently the Automobile Association has requested that the number of compulsory stops be reduced. The committee has considered the matter favourably, because stops not required for tramway purposes increase expenses and prolong the time of tho journey. The committee, therefore, decided to cut out the following stops, which are compulsory at present, and to make them optional stops as tram passengers desire. If tho stop is not required by tram passengers, the motormnn will slow down, bit not ston completely. «. Tho change will commence on October Ist next, and the practice will, continue for one month ns an. expert mont. There are 67 compulsory stop-

ping places at present: 29 of those will be changed to optional stops. Tho, stopping places affected bv tho change are as follows: Colombo street —Tennyson street, Moorliouso avenue, St. Asaph street, Salisbury street, and Dean street. Victoria street —Kilmore street, and Salisbury street. Ferry road—Madras . street, Bar- , badoes street, Smith street, and Bamford street. Riccarton road—Clyde road and Church Corner. • Bealey avenue—Manchester street. Worcester street —Latimer square, Barbadoes street, Fitzgerald avenue, and Olliviers road. Cashel street —Madras street, Barbadoes street, and Fitzgerald avenue. New Brighton—George street. Stanmoro road —Armagh street, Tweed street, and Burwood Church. . Fendalton —Lismore Lodge and Wnirarapa terrace. Opawa—Wilsons road. Cashmere—Cwynfa. ■ The report was adopted.