NO OVERLAPPING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 605, 6 March 1929, Page 6

NO OVERLAPPING

HENDERSON BUS ROUTE CARS PARKING AT TERMINALS That the Auckland Transport Board is not eager to allow- overlapping of bus service routes was shown when another application for a private service was granted yesterday afternoon. Mr. A. E. Ivil, who was one of the unsuccessful applicants at the board’s previous meeting for a service Henderson, applied for a route between Te Atatu and the city. He had the support of the Te Atatu Ratepayers’ Association, but Mr. W. Iddeson, the successful Henderson applicant, asked through counsel that Mr, Ivil should not be given permission to pick up or deposit passengers on the main road already covered by Mr. Iddesoa’s route. No objection would otherwise be made. “A condition such as that will mean that Mr. Ivil will be robbed of part of his livelihood,” said counsel for the applicant, but- the board found that it could grant tho licence only under the condition suggested by Mr. Iddeson. It was pointed out that Mr. Ivil’s route would reach the main road about lour miles on the city side of Henderson, although the time-table was entirely different from Mr. Iddeson’s. On the motion of the chairman, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, the board accepted the invitation of the Tamaki Ratepayers’ Association to meet at Kohimarama on March 14 to discuss transport in the Tamaki district. An opinion from the Motor Omnibus Proprietors’ Association that up-to-date terminals should be considered in transport questions was received. The association said that it would welcome the board’s co-operation in an endeavour to prevent car-parking in Commerce Street, a recognised bus terminal. A recommendation from the tramways manager that the suggestion that car-parking at Commerce Street and other bus terminals should be prohibited and that representation toward this should be made, was adopted.