IS IT RIGHT?

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1924, Page 7

IS IT RIGHT?

TO THE EDITOS

Sir, —It is right to widen Thorndon quay and so encourage heavy future motor traffic on tho tram-line? Oan heavier traffic pass at the Lambton Station? Would it not be better to throw a wide road bridge across the Hutt Bailway between Kaiwarra and the Manawatu Kailway Bridge, and run the traffic down towards Waterloo quay, a shorter route, clear of trams? It would then branch off into the city without danger from the tramcars. I have often noticed the block of cars opposite the Lambton Station. When coming up from Thorndon quay some months ago, there was a block on the tram-line, and we could not get through. On looking around I saw that the driver of one of the motors that were held up seemed very impatient to get through on to Lambton quay. He finally swung on to the right-hand side and ran full tilt into a motor coming off Lambton quay. Both cars were badly smashed, and the reason was the block at that point.

To my mind the dispatching from fihere is very badly managed. If motor drivers or horsemen blocked ttie street in the way the cars do every one of them would be fined. Why should not the cars be brought up to their one at a time, or why not provide a side line for the stationary cars instead of blocking five lines at once? The next point to be looked at is why should the city go to the expense of compensating the owners of the dozens of houses, factories, and warehouses on the Thorndon quay route? As stated^ above, diverting ths traffic across the' railway line near Kaiwarra, shortening the distance into the city, putting tho Tinakori road route in good shape for traffic, opening up Hobson street so that there would be a way through, to Fitzherbert terrace or Murphy street would avoid all. difficulties.

To me, the biggest trouble of all is the compensation for destroying so many frontages on Thorndon quay, or does the City Council hope to make money out of it ? Of course, lam intereßted in this, and have given it some attention. Where am I wrong? I ar» etc., '

ECONOMY.

30th September.