WAINONI BUS SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24896, 8 June 1946, Page 5

WAINONI BUS SERVICE

Sir,—l read with interest the tramway manager’s reply to a letter on the Wainoni bus service. Can we call it a service? Wainoni is three miles from the city, and has an hourly service, with no bus from 7.12 p.m. until /10.46 p.m. and no Sunday service. Did the excellent private service that Wainoni once enjoyed have anything to do with this victimisation? The reply will be, “It does not pay now”; but if our progressive Government took control it would immediately cut out the bungling and make it pay. Why detour through Dallington, and why make the Bower the terminus? Wainoni expected great things from the new blood on the Tramway Board; but seemingly St. Martins, Bryndwr, etc., are commanding all the attention just now. I feel sure when this letter is read and 6W’s time-table is perused, that Wainoni will be able to say “Thank you, gentlemen of the Tramway Board.”— Yours, etc., PETER SNELL. June 4. 1946.

[“The mileage from the city to the Wainoni terminus is four miles, 56 chains —not three miles,” Mr H. E. Jarman, general manager of the Christchurch Tramways. "The hourly service, except at peak loading periods, is as much as this sparsely populated area warrants. The gap referred to was imposed through war restrictions and will be amended when sufficient staff is available to bring a new time-table into force. I have no comment to make about Sunday running other than to say that if it is adopted it will involve a further loss.”}