AVONDALE TRANSPORT

Press, Volume C, Issue 29610, 5 September 1961, Page 11

AVONDALE TRANSPORT

“Footbridge To Solve Problem”

The City Council should be asked to reconsider its refusal to build a bridge across the Avon giving the people of Avondale access to the Dallington bus route at McBratney’s road, the works and traffic committee of the Transport Board decided yesterday. The committee declined a request from the Avondale Residents’ Association for a new bus route into the Avon, dale area, and decided to tell the association about the recommendation it would make to the City Council. Mr J. F. Fardell, general manager of the board, said the capital expenditure for two buses into Avondale would exceed the cost of a footbridge across the river. He said most people in the area were in the catchment areas of the North Beach and Wainoni route buses. Those farthest from the bus routes had no further to walk than people in other areas where streams, rivers, parks or golf courses presented a physical barrier to access to main traffic arteries.

“Housing density and potential patronage from this area do not warrant the provision of two extra buses; all the way from town to give the requested service,” said Mr Fardell. “In any case we have not the vehicles to spare at the present time.”