ECONOMY AXE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 6

ECONOMY AXE

FEWER SUNDAY TRAMS SAVING OF £4,500 But cutting out a number of Sunday cars and the release of 34 employees from duty that day, the Transport Board expects to make a saving of £4,594 a year. The reduced services will operate immediately. On the recommendation of the manager, Mr. A. E. Ford, the board decided yesterday to run 149 fewer trips from suburban termini into the city on Sundays, and 142 fewer trips out, the arrangement allowing the use of 17 fewer trams during the day. The routes affected will he Remuera-Mount Albert, from which three trams are to be withdrawn in the afternoons only; Ponsonby, from which four trams will be withdrawn; Dominion Road, from which another four will be withdrawn, two in the mornings and two in the afternoons; Onehunga, from which three cars will be withdrawn in the mornings only; the Herne Bay-Zoo-Grey Lynn route, from which two cars will be taken off in the afternoons only; and Mount Eden, which will only lose one car in the mornings. The manager’s report provides for a minimum service, with additional trips as and when traffic demands.