CITY TRAM STOPS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 123, 20 November 1929, Page 13

CITY TRAM STOPS

ARE THERE TOO MANY?

MR. CABLE SAYS NO

Giving the full .text of his remarks regarding Willis street tram stops made at the annual meeting of the Wellington Automobile Club on Monday evening, the condensed report of which he does not consider conveyed his meaning, Mr. B. L. Jones writes that lie said that there was no need for three stops from the Bank of New Zealand corner to the Duke of Edinburgh corner in Willis street. He also suggested doing away entirely with the tram stop at the "Evening Post" building,, also the one opposite at "Sehneideinan's Corner," and putting the Duke of Edinburgh corner stop lower down Willis street, say, close to Mr. Walter Smart's property; and in addition shifting the stop at'Perrett's corner back east a bit away from Perrett's corner. "My suggestion—a proper one, and which will eventually have to be carried out by the Tramways Department—was to do away with one tram stop only on each side of Willis street between the bank, corner and Perrett's corner," writes <Mr. Jones. "In the1-Interest of everybody, especially ladies old and young, who have charge of children, motorists should assist the authorities in offering suggestions for the improvement of pedestrian traffic." His remarks wore suggestions that the club might bring before the Traffic Department of the City Council, the splendid work of which all appreciated, with a view to assisting it.

The suggestion was put before the General Manager of the Tramways Department, who ridiculed the suggestions. "Some time ago," said Mr. Cable, "the whole question of tram stops in the city was reviewed, -and on the advice of a visiting expert, stops from Lambton quay to Cuba street were made compulsory, and a number were cut out altogether. Tram traffic is heavier to-day, and the public would never stand tho cutting out of the important stops mentioned, which are in the busiest part of the city. Why does Mr. Jones suggest these alterations?" '