RAIL V. MOTOR

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 8

RAIL V. MOTOR

APPEAL BOARD DECISION

MEMBER'S DISSENTIENT VIEW

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Comment on. the attitude of the Bailway Department to road services was made by Mr. L. Alderton, of the Transport Appeal Board, in dissenting from a majority decision of the board. Mr. Alderton said that the opposition of the Department to road services in the southern suburban and outer suburban Auckland area constituted an endeavour to force co-ordination with the Bailway. Operators were asked t» accept an unprofitable portion of a journey and the Department made no serious attempt to show that a curtailed road service could be- made payable. One of the greatest difficulties confronting the Appeal Board was. the fact that the Bailway Department apparently failed or refused to admit the limitations of the railroad. Until it did admit them it was impossible to obtain harmonious or effectual coordination between essential road and rail services. It was politic to consider how far the travelling ■ public could be coerced by decisions of the Appeal Board given in response to the railway appeals. It might well result in the alienation of public sympathy which the Department, like all transport operators, could ill afford to lose He believed that attempted co-ordina-tion would only cause much increased use of private cars.