Historic bus shelter should stay down here
PAGE four of the paper (ODT, 22.10.20) pictures the historic bus shelter at the Maori Hill roundabout being removed and notes that it may go to the Ferrymead Museum of Road Transport in Christchurch.
I would prefer that the shelter go to Toitu Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin to join the Tiger trollybus display.
While the shelter was initially built for the trams going to the South Seas Exhibition in 1925, it also was the terminal for the trollybus service along Highgate to the city in the 1950s. A service I used as a child.
Dr Howard Scott
Wakari
Bus meetings
IT is with regret that I write about the takeitorleaveit attitude of the Otago Regional Council in regards to the running of Dunedin’s bus service.
I have approached the ORC on several occasions about attending a onehour, monthly meeting at the third floor of the city library on the first Monday of each month, called Bus Go, so people like myself can air their dissatisfaction about the services available.
It has been going for a few years now but is hardly attended by any ORC bus employees. At one stage there were several members of the public who attended monthly, but to my dismay this month it was only attended by myself, a chairman who is a parttime Go Bus driver, and a man who takes the minutes of the meeting.
I am a daily user and feel that at least one person from the ORC bus operations could attend each month in the future.
Warwick Hogg
St Clair Park
[Otago Regional Council transport manager Garry Maloney replies:
‘‘Our transport team makes a considerable effort to attend a variety of meetings and presentations in our community, representing a range of members who use the bus — including the disability sector, students and 65plus/SuperGold community.
‘‘Prior to lockdown, we attended Bus Users Support Group Otepoti meetings regularly, alongside other groups’ meetings. We also attended a major community hui to hear constructive feedback on the network from bus users, providing feedback to a raft of questions and suggestions.
‘‘After the lockdown was lifted, we were able to resume our schedule preparing bus users for the shift to the Bee Card, including a demonstration day to which the Bus Users Group was one of only a handful of groups invited.
‘‘We are proud of the connections we are making in our community and look forward to attending Bus User Group meetings when we can, now that they have resumed and the Bee Card has been launched.’’
Wonderful words
I ENJOY the ‘‘Word Builder’’ in the daily Otago Daily Times but I must say that I have never managed to attain the total number of words possible from the five letters given.
When I check the next day’s answers, I always see words that I have never seen in print or have even heard of — and I read a lot.
My education, I admit, is a little lacking.
Tony Bradford
Bradford .....................................
BIBLE READING: If you think you can judge others, you are wrong. — Romans 2.1.