SHORTENING TRAM ROUTES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 151, 26 June 1912, Page 10

SHORTENING TRAM ROUTES

TO THE EDITOH. • Sir, — Of late several of your correspondents have been writing in your columns about' shortening tram routes, which is a very desirable thing ( to advocate, both, from the point of saving time as well as money and ratepayers' pockets. One of your correspondents lately suggested cutting off the corner of Cambridge-terrace (where there are a few houses, which he thought might be purchased cheaply) and going through where the stand on the , Basin Reserve now exists, and suggests j this would save the sharp turns now existing to get around the Basin. Now, would it not be better to take a tram, up the present .line — Cuba and Vivian streets — until you reach Tory-street? Then, instead of going^ down the incline after reaching the Vivian-Tory streets corner to Kent-terrace with its corner, to tarn up Tory-street towards the Police Station, cutting away one or two cottages on the St. Patrick's College corner, and going on past the Reserve and stand, serving the Basin Reserve at the same time without cutting into it, and then up Taiwan-street and on to Nowtown. This would shorten the distance considerably aud save sharp turns except at stopping places, such ax the comer of Vivian and Tory streets, which, would be similar to the corner of Cuba and Manners streets. The grade down to Kenttorrace would be saved, and such a line would serve v considerable residential as well ut business areu. I never could understand why it was not done in the first instance. The Kent-torrace train would sorve the eastern 6ido to Courtenay-placo as now, white a Tory-Taßman street route would serve the western side of that portion of the city, and practically duplicata the line to Newtown. You had only to watch the crowds of people coming down from Newtown way through Tas-man-street, past the stand at the Basin Reserve, down Tory-street, Viyian and Cuba fctreets, when the tram strike was on to see that the pedestrians had found the j shortest cut to the city, and the tram { should follow the same route. — I am, etc., I J.6.F. ! 22nd June.