Bus Time-tables

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 12

Bus Time-tables

Sir, —Three times in the past two months or so the bus time-table at the Clyde-Ilam road bus stop has been removed by vandals; and it is hardly surprising if the bus company is not particularly enthusiastic about replacing it. After all, it is not exactly its job to stop these moronic activities. Meanwhile, however, the time-tables are altered, a fact of which people waiting at this stop may not be aware; and, one gathers, this is not by any means the only stop to have suffered in this way. One would like to offer two suggestions: first, that, as a precautionary measure, these time-tables should be displayed, wherever possible inside the window of some adjacent premises, where the likelihood of their being removed would be negligible; and, second, that due warning of an impending alteration in the time-tables should be given in the press, so that people could provide themselves with the new schedules. —Yours, etc., ILAM. May 11, 1966. [The general manager of the Christchurch Transport Board (Mr J. F. Fardell) comments: “I have already replied to ‘Ham’ on this matter. In regard to the suggestion that timetables should be displayed inside the window of adjacent premises, we have already made application at a place where this would be suitable, but we were unable to get permission to make the exhibition. In regard to the second suggestion, timetable alterations are always notified in the newspaper, as well as by window bills in the buses. Alterations are also, from time to time, placed on ‘please take one’ hand-bills which regular passengers can pick up from a container on the bus near the driver’s cash ! tray.”]