BUSES TO ALBANY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 308, 20 March 1928, Page 13

BUSES TO ALBANY

LEGAL PROBLEM ARISES A CURIOUS ANOMALY The problem of providing a motor ■ service from Birkenhead to Albany is providing another example of the difficulties which surround the motor omnibus regulations. In order to obtain a permit to run a bus a certificate must be produced from the proper Government authority to show tnat any bus to be used complies with the requirements of the Act. In the Albany case a bus that will comply with the Act cannot negotiate the road to Albany as the clearance between the running board and the road is not sufficient; even if it were the Waitemata County Council weight limit, under the road classification, prohibits the use of the vehicle. The Government is adhering to the regulations so that, though the district had a service for eight years until the Marine Suburbs Bus Company abandoned its services, no new service e.in be started which will comply with the existing laws. The state of the road to Albany is very bad at present; the bus contract*>r carrying school children to North cote will, in wet weather, have to provide two buses; one on each side of a gap of one mile in the road, over which gap the children will have to walk.