Bus-Stop Seats

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30153, 10 June 1963, Page 3

Bus-Stop Seats

Sir.—A problem in human mathematics for the Transport Board and the Bank of New Zealand How d< 36 persons squeeze on to one seat with space only for five? I am referring to the lack of seats at the North Beach bus stop in the Square. r i midafterhoon, elderly folk, housewives. and school children are all congregated at this stop to do what the Transport Board prefers—that is, travel before the rush hours begin; and last Wednesday, included among the standing numbers of us patien y, and wearily moving from one foot to the other, were two pregnant women and five very elderly citizens Let us have some service before the bus ride begins, and if the board is working at too great a loss to cover the cost of setting down more seats then I am sure that there must be enough money in the Bank of New Zealand to help cover the cost.—Yours, etc., (MRS) MIL GIBSON. June 4, 1963.

[The general rqanager of the Christchurch Transport Board (Mr J. F. Fardelli replies: “At the present time hoardings are erected and have taken away the available space for seating, and it is not possible to provide seating for 36 persons during the building operations by the Bank of New Zealand. A new design for Cathedral square is being developed by the Christchurch City Council. which will provide shelter and seating accommodation in various parts of the Square, for passengers and other people.”]