New Brighton Bus Shelter
Sir, —Last year I wrote to your paper asking when we were likely to be provided with a bus shelter at the New Brighton terminus. The Transport Board replied that one was planned for the end of the year. They forgot to say which year. If the Minister of Transport had to stand and wait for a bus at that particular stop he would realise just how desperately one is needed, especially if the usual biting wind is blowing in from the sea. Sometimes the bus pulls in a bit early, and the driver sits nice and snug behind locked doors while the intending passengers stand and shiver on Lie footpath with no shelter. —Yours, etc., JUST SEA BREEZES. June 1, 1962 [The general manager of the Christchurch Transport Board <Mr J. F. Fardelli said: “It has now been found that the type of shelter envisaged by the writer is not possible to erect owing to the narrowness of the pavement, but verandah covers do exist at the stops. However. there is no reason why intending passengers should be kept out of a bus waiting at the terminus. Instructions concerning this matter will be re-issued to the staff, namely, that when buses have pulled round to the terminus, the ticket numbers closed and the destinations changed, passengers should be immediately allowed on the bus.”]
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29856, 23 June 1962, Page 3
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