THE TRAMWAYS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16323, 12 January 1921, Page 7

THE TRAMWAYS.

REPAIRING IN COLOMBO STREET. PASSENGERS INCONVENIENCED NEXT WEEK. Many on the tramways will be inconvenienced next week by tho process of replacing special work iu Colombo Street immediately north of Cathedral Square. It will be necessary to absolutely stop all tramway traffic on that street in the short- stretch between Uloiiceser Street and Cathedral Square. This arrangement will be enforced on Monday, and will continue for about live days. Passengers into the city from Victoria Street. Papanni ltoad, Fendalton, Fdgeware Road, St Albans Road and Cranford Street who wish to enter Cathedral Square must alight at Gloucester Street and walk to the Square along Colombo Street. If they wisli to go anywhere south of the Square, they must take fresh oars in the Square. Passengers from t.hc railway station, the hills, Lincoln R<fed and Aloorhouse Avenue will be brought into the Square but if they wish to go further north they will have to walk along Colombo Street to Gloucester Street and take a car there. The line:in Colombo Street at tho Gloucester Street junction will Ik* altered in order to allow cai-s that come in from Edgeware .Road and other northern lines to shunt on to the western line and run lo Victoria Street, Papanui Road and Fendalton. “I regret the necessit v for this inconvenience,” Air F. Thompson, tho general manager, said to-day, t: but it illustrates the urgency for an alternative line through the city. Tf wo had bad a line down Alanoliester Street we could have run the cars along that street* and Armagh Street while the replacing was in hand, and traffic* would not bo -stopped. The Citv Council now is holding no any possibilitv of tint arrangement ?*y its protest to the Public Works Department.” In order to have as little delay as Oossifde, the now tracks have been put together in a vacant section in AToorhoiise Avenue, all the rivetim*. marking and everything- else** having been done there. Tt will be necessary onlv to drop the tracks into the excavations.