WADESTOWN TRAM FARES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1914, Page 10

WADESTOWN TRAM FARES

TO THI EDITOR. Sktfta«! think it. is time that the tramway authorities did something reasonable to make the tram fares from Wadestown satisfactory. A little while ago it was decided to issue a 2s 6d ticket which enables a person to travel between Wadestown and. the corner of Manners and Willie, streets for 2£d a • trip. Wadestown receives l|d and the city takes a penny for the ride from Park-street to Manners-street, which Is two sections, but as it is really only two half-sections, it is counted as one. Thus-any casual visitor to Wadestown, who buys a concession ticket, get* the benefit of having these two half-sections counted as one. • Well, then, why ■cannot the residents of Wadestown, who leave before 7.30, get the same benefit on a,worker's'ticket? Let the two sections be counted ab one and have a 12-trip ticket issued for Is 6d, which would take them right through from Wadestown to Manners-street. Wadestown would take. 1b and the city 6d from the sale of these tickets. Workers on other city lines get the threesection ticket for Is 6d, so why should not we travel on city lines at the same i Tate? It seems plain enough that it is j only three sections between the two points by the fact of it being counted i as such on concession tickets. Apart' from • doing justice to early travellers i and the district, I believe it would add I to the revenue of the city ■ on account j of getting more travellers over that portion of the line. As it is at present the cars are practically deserted at Parkstreet each morning. We get from Wadestown to Park-street for Id, so do not feel inclined to pay another 2d to Manners-street.—l am, etc., WELD-STREET.. 21et July, 1914.