TROLLEY BUS SERVICES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23226, 21 December 1938, Page 17

TROLLEY BUS SERVICES

Sir, —The advent in Auckland of the trolley bus demonstrates for the first time in our city the advantageous nature of this type of public vehicle, its flexibility, its capacity for hill climbing; and as a means of providing public transport in secondary districts in which the cost of the provision of tramway tracks would probably prove prohibitive. One such route, much needed, appeals to one as being worthy of the consideration of and investigation by the Auckland Transport Board. It would be as follows:—From the intersection of Queen and Victoria Streets (A.M.'P. corner), thence via Victoria Street East, Bowon Avenue, Waterloo Quadrant, Lower Symonds Street, Graflon Road, Park Road, Carlton Gore Road and' Victoria Crescent to Broadway, Newmarket, and vice versa. The larger part- of the district which would be served by the suggested service is hilly, and quite inadequately served in the matter of public passenger transport. It is, although a central district of the city, difficult of approach. especially for elderly people and for all in wet weather. The route suggested would afford direct communication from a very central terminus, halfway between the Town Hall and the C.P.O. to the hotels, flats and boarding houses in the Princes Street area, the University and Albert Park. Grafton. Park and Carlton Gore Roads are largely comprised of hoarding houses and flats, which would provide a considerable number of regular passengers and, at the same time, the service would afford quick and easy access for passengers from the eastern suburbs and from the central portion of the city to the general hospital, Blandford Park, the Domain and the Auckland Bowling Club's greens; while also providing for the residents upon its route a rapid means of reaching the central shopping area in Queen Street, or the local shopping centre at Xertmarket. It would have an additional advantage in the fact that the silent running of the vehicles would eliminate any disturbing noise which might cause nrinoyance to the patients in the hospital, such as is inseparable from tramway cars and motor-buses. Ht. F. RHODESrHOBINBON.