BUCKLAND ROAD BUSES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21328, 1 November 1932, Page 13

BUCKLAND ROAD BUSES

Sir, —Might I make an appeal to the Transport Board for the restoration of the. Buckland Road and Waikowhai bus services, and that they be allowed to run right in to the city. The residents on this route are anything from a mile and a-quarter to a quarter of a mile from the nearest tram route. Gillies Avenue, Empire Road, Buckland Road and out to Waikowhai are very lonely thoroughfares at night, and it is not safe for our daughters and aged people to have to walk these streets after dark of an evening, to say nothing of the inconvenience on a wet night. 1 appeal to members of the board to traverse this route on foot, on a wet, blustery night and see for themselves what it is like. A bus service on this route would only compete with the tram when it crosses Khvber Pass Road, out of Mountain Road, along Park Road, and a penal fare could be charged from there to town and vice versa to prevent competition with the tramcars. A bus service operates to Victoria Avenue, Remuera, which runs right alongside a tram route until it reaches St. Stephen's Avenue, and we only ask that Buckland Road and Waikowhai residents be granted the same privilege. I feci sure the Transport Board would lose very little by allowing our bus service to be restored. I understand the Hospital Bus Company, which runs past the public hospital, the Mater, Cairnhill, and Awanui hospitals, would be prepared to continue its service to Buckland Road and Waikowhai, and the Transport Board, having taken its buses off the route, on the ground that they were not paying, might reasonably allow a private company to have a try, particularly when the service is so badly needed. W. E. Arey.