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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 4. 1966.

[growing problem]

Now these plans, too, lie in some dark council pigeonhole.

In 1962 the Mayor. Sir Francis Kitts, mentioned the possibility of a second cable car—an alternate route had been considered from Dixon Street up to Easterfield building. He said that at the time governmental pressures were against the raising of loans by local bodies and this would make this kind of large-scale improvement unlikely in the near future.

Since then the passenger load has continued to increase.

But the council transport department's present ambitions don't go beyond a repaint.

The head of the department, Mr. R. H. Pritchard, says that the service is a swift one, taking only about four minutes for the run at peak hours, and that the queue is fast moving.

This may have some truth, but students would contrast waiting out in the alley on a wet day and then clinging to the present cars, none of whose seats are completely waterproof.