OUR LETTER BOX.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 258, 30 November 1903, Page 2

OUR LETTER BOX.

(We are at all times willing to publish correspondence on matters of public interest, but it must be distinctly understood that we are not identified with the letters of our correspondents.—Ed. Daily News.) STREET TRAFFIC BY-LAWS. (To tho Editor.) Sir, —I wish to draw the attention of the authorities to the absurd regulations re the stands to which 'buses are relegated. For instance, the Fitzroy 'buses have been known to start from the Coffee Palace Corner for years, and why should they not continue to do so ? I am sure the traffic is not so great that a 'bus cannot remain at a stated part for a few minutes, so that every one knows the starting point. Now they have to pull up in the cenl.re if the road, and women and children are in great danger of being run over. In Auckland and Wellington, previous to trams, when traffic was ten times greater than here, they were allowed to do so, and why in :i!l conscience are horses made to drag a heavy 'bus up to the Post Office and down again just to please iomo official who has nothing else to do. Take Wellington. The 'buses ■or different parts such as Worser Bay and other places stand right nt Ihe corner of Cuba and Manners Streets for 15 minutes collecting their passengers., but here, where the ;.raffic is about a twentieth that of Wellington, the '-buses cannot stop and collect their passengers, Wut must go up to the top of the hill and remain there until time, then •ollect in the centre of the street all the way, as passengers will not walk lup the hill to the Post Office, not likely. But of course, this city is -so far in the van that we can. do these things better than others. RATEPAYER.