THE RAILWAY PROBLEM.
“Everyone knows that the railway companies are steadily losing traffic,’ states the “Daily Telegraph” (London). “Much of this loss is irrecoverable, because passengers now prefer to travel by road and because some ■ classes of goods traffic can be trails-, ported more quickly and conveniently Jby road than 'by rail.. But it is' equally apparent that much of the 1 heavy goods traffic that we see on the roads ought not to have left the railways. The roads have an undue burden put upon them, for purely artificial reasons, while the railways are • not being fully used. The railway companies maintain, with reason that, if they could operate road services and offer traders through rates for combined road and rail transport, they could relieve the roads to some extent while utilising the railways to a greater extent. Co-ordination of this sort would benefit both the railway shareholders and the trading community. Moreover, the railway companies’ road services could be employed to link up small towns and villages with the nearest stations in a systematic fashion.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1928, Page 8
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177THE RAILWAY PROBLEM. Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1928, Page 8
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