Trams and Bus Concession

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 8

Trams and Bus Concession

NOT UNDERSTOOD WEST END INDIGNATION dignant because they ar '** prevented from using th' "°* bined tram and bus cone.' 0 ”' tickets that are avail, b! e on *" other sections of the s y st. m “'"* Until recently the combined , Ke.s were accepted by tk. ductors. Th. out that this was done in and now forbids their accep^ a s °Mount ai Men DonS Um -«« where it is considered tickets should be interehaSSh **■ b.ned tram and bus conccSST*® are issued. n The cards bear no indie»ti«w they are to apply to an route and conductors and b "; vers dropped into the habit l m S them when thev were h , y tmvellers who presumably' chased them in error, on thi E " d tra "’ '.uses, for whkh 1* rate cards for the trams and £? are required. ™ A LOSING PROPOSITION The tramway department’s mb’ i. tion of the distinction, with no A bined cards issued for West End is that it is one of the least n.r' C parts of the system, and S* turther concessions of combined A cannot therefore be extended The existing practice, whereby rate tickets are required, was i m duced on May 1, but until rec"n, was not enforced. The laxitv . reported to the department which ' structed bus drivers and conduct'that combined cards could not be s. cepted on the West End route Great indignation among many tn vellers was the result some dcclir - to pay a fare when the bus dn," would not accept their combined ti t ket. They complain, also, that *h» department’s West End Road -redoes not sell the combined card, “That is quite right,” said an o.f. cial this morning. “The combii cards cannot be used on the End Road route, so there is no m son why our agent there shoud stock them.”

The trouble is apparently the rest; of a perfectly simple misunderstanding. and the department expresses to readiness to make refunds on any coin, bined cards, or parts thereof, whit; the holders are unahje to use.