TRANSPORT TO AND FROM EASTBOURNE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 2, 28 September 1937, Page 11

TRANSPORT TO AND FROM EASTBOURNE

A Resident’s Views

“Eastbourne cannot continue to stand this loss on her ferry steamers,” said a resident of that borough to a “Dominion” reporter. “As a matter of fact these steamers have always been a clog on the progress of the place, and that does not exclude the purchase of the Muritai just when the motorear was coming into its own. What I would suggest as best for the borough is to got rid of its steamers after the coming summer, and leave all the water-borne traffic to. private enterprise. Get more buses, big ones! The present ones, particularly the new ones, are very comfortable, but why not double-deckers? These buses are freely used in London and all over England. They would carry double the number of passengers for almost the same consumption of petrol. There are no hills to climb between Wellington and Eastbourne, and in flue weather the outside seats would provide some very fine views of the harbour. “Day’s Bay, which would also i>e served by a better bus service, should be made to come into line with Eastbourne as regards water and drainage. I cannot why the Health Departanent has been so reluctant to enforce decent sanitary conditions on Wellington’s most beautiful suburb. More than half the residents favour a gravity water supply, and proper drainage, but cannot get it, for the opposition comes from those who should be its chief advocates.”