SYDNEY BUSES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1926, Page 4

SYDNEY BUSES.

COMPETITION WITI-I TRAMS. SYDNEY, July 15. The Government appears to lie looking for trouble in all directions. As to tlie Workers Compensatin Act, the public have been somewhat phlegmatic. They have regarded*that- as a fight purely between the Government ami the employers and underwriters, and have shown little inclination to enter the contest, but if the Government carries out tho. proposals of one

of its Ministers to prevent tlie buses from picking up passengers along the tram routes, except during the peak periods of traffic, there will inevitably he an outcry on the part of the pairlie. The Government- is not, as was feared in some quarters, going to create a monopoly for itself in the bus traffic, but the trams are a losing proposition, and as the incursion of the buses is held to be largely responsible for it, the Government is going to cut out the buses in the slack periods along, tram routes, and compel the public to squeeze into trams already overcrowded. If the public desire buses and they do desire them, judging from the wav they patronise them—then they will insist upon the use of them at all hours, and not merely during the peak periods. People are already packed like sardines in Sydney’s trams at almost any hour of the day on almost any of the busy services. To crowd mere people into them, by cutting out the buses, simply in order that the Government'can pull up its deficit on the trams, will be for the Government to invite trouble. This is something that will touch the public immediately, like tho income-tax.