TRAMS AND BUSES.
Sir.-—What ratepayers would like ta know is why did the Mayor and the City Council not. carry out the extensions to out-lying suburbs, particularly along roads which are, already formed, especially Dominion Road and Mount Eden, instead of putting all those thousands into cumbersome buses, of which the public complain ? They are veritable bone-shakers, without a doubt, as I well know, having ridden in the Point Resolution bus on several occasions. You can have little or no eonven sation while on the journey. If they must have buses, why not smaller ones, with pneumatic tyres, which would meet all requirements and be far more, satisfactory? Then, when the tramway extern sions are carried out the buses could bo utilised for outlying districts beyond termini. The land beyond the present Dominion " Road terminus lends itself to the assurance of rapid settlement, providing the trams are extended. The reason so many people travel by bus at present is that, they will not change oyer from one vehicle to another. To my mind private enterprise has shown more business acumen than our city fathers, who should be up and doing, "instead of pleading. Disappointed Ratepayer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18964, 11 March 1925, Page 7
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