SEATOUN TRAMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 175, 13 April 1918, Page 6

SEATOUN TRAMS

USE OF CONSTABLE STREET ROUTE.

There is considerable feeling beinj manifested in Seatoun over the proposal of the City Council to send the - Seatoun cars out and in by way of. Constable Street instead of through the Mt. Victoria tunnel as at present', and at the meeting of the Mifamar Borougn Council the' new arrangement was' regarded in the light of a hardship.' ■

Interviewed on' the matter, the' tramways manager (Mr. W. H. Morton) said that the decision to use the Constable Street route had been forced on him by the solid growth of the traffic to Hataitai and Kilbirnie. Hataitai had grown to such 'an extent during the Inst two or three years thnt it had been 6omewhat of a problem to get the people home in reasonable time at rush hours. On top of that Seatoun was provided with three through-fare cars during the ovening rush hours, which residents of Hataitai could not use. . The tunnel traffic had grown to such an extent that it was now being traversed by n car for every two and a half minutes of the day, and as it represented a long section of single track, entailing waits on the part of .others cars,' the framing of a timetable providing for an expeditious service, via the tunnel, had become, increasingly difficult. 1 Mr.'Morton said 'that-he''had to consider a largo community like Hataitai who resided within the city, and could not see that Seatoun people had anything to comrclain of. as the journey, via Constable Street:, would only take three minutes longer than by the tunnel. Miramar cars, which were less'frequent than those serving Seatoun, would still use the tunnel route; That meant that the tunnel would be reserved for Hataitai, Kilbirnie.. and .Miramar cars, whilst all Lynll Bay and Seal win cars , would be sent over the Constable Street hill. It was proposed that the alteration would be mnde as from May 1: '