CITY TRAM SYSTEM

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2728, 24 March 1916, Page 6

CITY TRAM SYSTEM

CONSTABLE STREET LINE

OPENING ON APRIL 3

NEW DOUBLE-DECKERS

The Tramway Committee reported to the City Council last evening that the Constable Street tramway will be completed at the end of the present month. It was proposod that the opening ceremony shall take pltice on Monday, April 3. Tho committee asked that the Tramways Iffanager should be authorised to purchase equipments for six large double-decker cars, in order to provide for increasing tramway traffic. The Mayor said tliat the tramway system was growing, and mora cars were needed to carry the people. The double-deckers proposed were the best suited to tho present needs of .the system. The new cars were needed ohiefly for rush hours. . They could not be used through The Hataftai tunnel, but could be sent over the Constable Street hill.

Councillor J. Fuller moved that the clause should be referred back. The double-deckers, he said, were a failure, and were being discarded in London. Double-deckers took too long to load and unload.

Councillor L. M'Kenzio seconded this. He said that some of the doubledeckers now in use were not the kind of cars to be copied. The Mayor said the proposed new cars would be of a different type. The committee's recommendation was agreed 'to.

Authority was granted for the tramway along Waterloo Quay to be extended to the new Ferry Wharf. This, it was explained, was in connection witlj the new railway station scheme.