THE TRAMWAYS SERVICE TO NORMANBY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18170, 15 February 1921, Page 8

THE TRAMWAYS SERVICE TO NORMANBY.

TO THH EDITOB. Sir,—A letter in this morning's issue compares the boarding of a Normanby car by workers after their day'ikbour to a football: scramble. That is n 5 exaggeration, and 1 can give evidence of a similar condition of matters at other points of the northern tram lines. A simple way of improving the -North-Enst Valley is to divert a portion of tlie traffic to the Castle street line by the continuation of that line through the Botanical Gardens. A more frequent service could v , as is much needed, then be run the whole length of Castle street, with a choice of routes through - this doubling of tramway service. The re=i-' dents of the North-East Valley would share with the whole of the northern district a great benefit and a relief from the congestion at present existing, and, what" is of much importance, the cost to the tramway department would be small. The Blind end at north Castle street will have to be cut out sooner or later. \Vby not now? No one values the present site of the hardens more than the writer as a public utility and a necessity. The Gardens need not be disturbed. Indeed, the public would, as a result of the greater convenience of +he tramway service, more and more delight in these splendid gardens.—l nm. etc.. February 14. John Lunx.