THREE TIMES FASTER
NEW METHODS AT NORTH SHORE BUSES BEAT STEAM TRAMS Buses axe handling the holiday trippers who arrive at Bayswater three times as fast as the steam trams which used to pant painfully and with much belching of smoke down to the ferries. When the Pupuke had made fast in the old days, her peak load of 400 people would rush the three trains of three carriages each. But there was no need of any great hurry, because it took from 12 to 15 minutes before the last of them puffed off. Each carriage carried about 62 people. The comparison with the modern method is interesting. The Takapuna carries 550 or 600 people at rush times. There are 18 of the fleet of 32 buses to meet the ship, and they carry an average of 35 people each. A stopwatch has been used to decide the time occupied in this change of transport, and it has been found that the 18th bus moves away in less than four minutes after the first one has glided off.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19280107.2.81
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 246, 7 January 1928, Page 7
Word Count
178THREE TIMES FASTER Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 246, 7 January 1928, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in