OVERCROWDED BUSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 873, 17 January 1930, Page 10

OVERCROWDED BUSES

OBJECTION TO PROSECUTION COMPANY EXPLAINS POSITION Referring to recent prosecutions tho Passenger Transport Company .” overloading their buses, ttie secret made an explanation at last evenw' | meeting of the Otahuliu Borough CouY He said that there was bound to 1 occasional overloading. To prevent,s. w ould mean running so many emm? (buses that the service could no?^ : m.tdo to pax. The i itv C’ouncil in j spector had r ecently informed the caJS’ pany that there was less overload^ j others 8 C ° mPany S buses than «» 4 ■ During the past two years ten nolarge buses bad been put on to co». (with the tramp This was pro^bH ls , greater number of new buses than an I the ether services in Auckland had pm on during that period. 1 During the past year 120.000 e xtl -. | bus miles had been run for the purDoiJ ; of relieving overloading. The inerea.M mileage cannot be increased indefinite!,, without a eerresponding increase „ revenue, and if the council was goine to take up an antagonistic attitude and prosecute every time a bus was over loaded the company would have no option but to immediately increase the fares. It was loath to do thls." as prided itself on giving the cheapest service in Auckland, and possibly Australasia. The average rate a mile was approximately 20 per cent, less than that charged by the trams before their recent rise in fares. Xo increase was made when the 4d a gallon tax was added to benzine. On the motion of the Mavor the letter was referred to the Traffic Committee of the combined local bodies for consideration for a report to the coun cil.