A POLICY OF ACCIDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1932, Page 6

A POLICY OF ACCIDENTS

More in sorrow than in anger, a citizen in yesterday's. issue discussed the vagaries df City Council policy, which is not so much a policy as a series of accidents. By a succession of half-concealed and halfrevealed tactical expedients, the hole in the eastern hill got through, but its proper connection with the arteries on either side, and its relation to the tramway system, are still matters resting on the skirts of chance. On the western side, the last cutting or tunnel (Sydney street cemetery or thereabouts) is hung up, the Government has checkmated the Bowen street tramway compromise, and there is a harking back to the Norway street tunnel, which is about the oldest plan of all (and many people think, have always thought, the best). In the meantime, Karori has three transport services, none of which is designed to do the job. The municipal tramway is notoriously circuitous; the municipal bus subserves the tramway as much as it serves the public; and the private bus does not enter" the city low levels at all, though,coupled with the cable tramway it is a-fairly direct route to Lambton quay! "Manoeuvring for position, as between private bus interests and municipal .electrical passenger services must be interesting to those behind the scenes; but the net result is, a multiplicity of services without much service.