FENDALTON BUS SERVICES

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26553, 16 October 1951, Page 3

FENDALTON BUS SERVICES

RESIDENTS FORM COMMITTEE

A committee was appointed gt a meeting of Fendalton residents last evening, to meet representatives of the Christchurch Tramway Board and make recommendations concerning present and future bus services to the district. The meeting was well attended. The following were members of the committee: Messrs C. C. Bezar (chairman), and A. E. Morgan, and Mesdames A. G. Williams and A, L. Smith. The committee will make the following recommendations to the board: (1) that the service to Ham road, as an extension of the service to the Fendalton terminus, should be increased; (2) that the present Fendalton terminus should be moved out to the intersection of Ham and Clyde roads; and (3) that the last bus from Cathedral square at 11.10 p.m. should go out to Caswell street, instead. of stopping at the Fendalton terminus The need for an increase in the Ham road extension of the Fendalton terminus service was most apparent between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., when many people missed the extension buses, leaving very infrequently, because they were full of people who travelled only as far as the Fendalton terminus, said Mr Bezar. There were 499 new houses, most of them already occupied, in the Bryndwr State • housing block. The residents of these houses at present often had to walk long distances to meet buses. There could be no valid objection to the extension of the service, since the roads into the new housing blocks were now all fully paved along the entire proposed route, said Mrs A. E. Morgan.