TRAMWAYS EXTENSION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16366, 21 October 1916, Page 6

TRAMWAYS EXTENSION

NEW QUEEN STREET LINE. SERVICE STARTS TO-DAY. Trams will commence to run along the new Queen Street extension to-day for the first time. The Unking-up of the straight lino from the wharf with that running past the Town Hall to Karangahape Road has been completed, and a rearrangement of the services concerned has been rendered possible. An immediate effect of the opening of the extension will be the diversion thereto of the cars which have for the past few days been running in and out of via Customs Street West and Pitt Street. Under the now arrangement the Customs Street lines will only be used by the Heme Bay service. The following services will be run from the wharf along Queen Street and the Queen Street extension to Karangahape Road, and thence east to Symonds Street or west to Pitt Street as tho case may dc : Mount Albert, Dominion Road, Onehunga, Mount Eden, Grey Lynn, and a certain number of Ponsonby cars. During the " rush hour from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Epsom cars will also be run along the new extension. The only cars which will traverse the Wellesley Street East and Symonds Street line during the currency of the new arrangement will be those for the Royal Oak. A 15 minutes' service will be run, and between 5 and 6 p.m. Do--minion Road cars will also take this route. All will start from the junction of Queen and Wellesley Streets. On the Wellesley Street West line, departing from the foot of that street, will run the majority of the Ponsonby cars, in a 10 minutes' service. Some of the Grey Lynn cars will also take this route between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. It is expected that this rearrangement of the services will remain in force for about five or six weeks. It will tako about that period for the company to have the new curves laid at each of the four,corners at the junction of Queen and Wellesley Street?. Until that work is completed the regular services from the wharf round into Wellesley Street East and West cannot be resumed.