ORIENTAL BAY

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12096, 25 March 1925, Page 6

ORIENTAL BAY

A very interesting question is to be decided by the City Council’on Thursday. It is a question winch touches far more than Oriental Bay. It includes the whole question of the future of the Wellington tramway system. •That system is faced with a very difficult future. The time is' net far off

when the increasing congestion of the street traffic will make it necessary to discard the tramrails and rely, at all events over long lengths of the city transport service, on railless trams or motor-’buses, both of which classes of transport have been adopted in other cities with very good results. The time has arrived already when the change might well bo tried on the Oriental Bay section, which is destined to be carried on round Evans Bay in the future. As new raile are due for the present Oriental Bay section, the question of saving the cost of new rails by inaugurating the new system is worth serious consideration. Moreover, there is the special grievance of the Oriental Bay residents, which they have a legitimate right to pub forward, and are putting forward, for the council’s consideration. Their grievance is the dust grievance, which is intolerable, and destructive to the standing of one of the most attractive residential districts of the city. The inauguration of the new system with the laying down of a bitumen surface on the magnificent esplanade would effectually put an end to the dust nuisance. For these reasons, general and local, the council would, in our opinion, do well to make now in Oriental Bay the transport change looming nearer the inevitable with every month