TRAMS TO MIRAMAR

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 111, 8 February 1928, Page 10

TRAMS TO MIRAMAR

RESIDENTS DISSATISFIED PROTEST TO BE MADE “Seatoun has 14 tramcars oil Sunday morning and Miramar has two,” said Mr. L. G. Thornton, chairman of the Miramar Progressive Association, at the quarterly meeting of that body last night. “Also the first car to Miramar, when the Sunday afternoon service begins is 1.21. Most other suburbs get their first car about 1.9.” “If action is taken we should be able to get extra service,” said a member. “There are very many more people here than there are at Seatoun, and now we have the tennis courts, while a good many people go over towards Worser Bay, Seatoun and Island Bay, have 20ininute services on Sunday morning and in the afternoon practically all the other suburbs have 5 and 10-minute services in the afternoon. We have a grievance, but at the same time we should be able to get satisfaction if the matter is taken up with the tramway authorities.”

“There is another matter,” said the chairman. “This overcrowding on the trams is getting beyond a joke.” A member: Couldn’t something be done to keep the Hataitai people off the trams? (Daughter.)

Another member: It might help if they reversed the service and ran Ha-taitai-Kilbirnie cars first.

The chairman: It would not help a bit. They have tried it. What I have advocated is that they should run nonstop long-distance trams. I have definite advice that they run such express cars in Dunedin, and I believe that they do so in Christchurch. People who were once caught on such a car would not be caught a second time. Mr. J. R. Weir: They have tried it before, Mr. Chairman. Seatoun had one some years ago.

The Chairman: Well, I wish the}’ would try it again. It was decided to appoint the chairman and secretary to wait upon the manager of tramways.