BAD BUSINESS?

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 8

BAD BUSINESS?

(To the Editor.)

' Suv-Maiiy -ratepayers of this city are considerably agitated regarding the pioposal to make the new tunnel through Mount Victoria ridge one for tram tratflc? thus to compete W the existing one, via Pirie street, which is only^bout 400 yards distant, and carrying traffic in the same direction. When the new tunnel was being first arranged, the citizen*.were giv f n to understand that it ; was to be for ordinary traffic, and pedestrians. If t is now to be set apart for tram traffic, there will certainly be a heavy, loss through using both tunnels for the same traffic Many ace of opinion that the new tunnel would serve.the public best by keeping tram traffic out of it. I suggest that it. should, as first contemplated, be in1 use for all ordinary wheel traffic, with provision for pedestrians, out of danger from vehicles, and that every vehicle on wheels (except prams on pedestrian track) should be charged a small fee of 3d or id. op. arriving to enter at either end. mis could be provided for by issuing cards or books of tickets similar, to those used now for trnm fares. I believe the revenuo from such a-course would be surprising.. The "Evening Post" has always been a cood friend and adviser to Wellington citizens, and the general public, on all questions of public utility, and I ani sure that the ratepayers of this city would be pleased to learn "The Post's" view on this important matter. Two tram services run in competition for the same traffics appears to an ordinary individual to be bad business.—l am, etc., RATEPAYER.