BUS SERVICES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 176, 28 July 1942, Page 6

BUS SERVICES

SCHEDULES AMENDED

AN OVERALL REDUCTION

The various bus companies concerned with city and suburban services have reached a stage of finality in the compilation of revised timetables for reduced services, as required by the Government to conserve rubber and petrol, and will now be in a position to present details of their new schedules to the public.

Some confusion has existed in the public mind concerning application of the broad policy laid down for a 25 per cent reduction on week days and 75 per cent cut on Sundays. When the proposed reduced programmes of running were submitted by the operating companies to the licensing authorities, both the Metropolitan and the No. 1 Authoritv expressed the view that the quantitative reduction called for would necessarily have to be calculated on an overall basis.

Otherwise, it was pointed out, a specified flat reduction would merely have involved a mathematical adjustment to all existing timetables.

It was felt that the obvious intention of the Government was that the licensing authorities, in co-operation with the operating companies, and having regard as far as possible to views expressed on behalf of the public affected, should endeavour to achieve an overall reduction likely to create the minimum of hardship to the travelling public.