RAILWAY AND BUS TICKETS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 106, 7 May 1928, Page 8

RAILWAY AND BUS TICKETS

(To tho Editor.) Sir, —Wo residents of the Lower llult were givo.ii*l<) understand that when tho Kaihvay Depnrtnient boiight out the bus companies there would be no material alteration in the miming of same. Well,

Sir, since the Department has had the limning under its control it has had tickets printed with the words "in" and "'out" appearing on the face thereof, and ono is allowed to make a "return" trip only, instead of when the. companies were tlio owners we could use'the one ticket to come, in twice or go out twice. I know the word "return" means once each way, and if there was any difference in the cost of running the bus either to or from the liutt, the action of the Department could be readily understood, but as there is no hill at all on the Lower Hutt route I think it would be but fair if the'tickets could be used as in former days. If the Department would tlo this there would be much less grumbling amongst the passengers., especially those who have season tickets for the train, and who, through paucity in the number of trains on the new line, are compelled to travel by road. Single tickets at !)d to Lower IJutt would meet the case. I hope this will be taken up by others.—l am, etc., BELLEVUE. (To the Editor.) Sir,—l must congratulate the llailway Department upon their businesslike action in making the bus return tickets what they are supposed to be. < The lax system that allowed one ticket to be used as two singles' at a reduced price arose through luck of business acumen on the part of the early originators of the service, and was the cause of many irregularities. We met many cases where one person bought a return ticket and immediately handed, it out of the window to a friend or relative to be immediately used by that friend or relative. This resulted in « loss of Gd to the bus, but saved the careful person one of his national coins. The little things arc the ones that count in the aggregate, and the attention given to them has a great bearing on the success of a bus service. The loss caused to the service through improper charging or nqncharging for children is enormous. There is no valid reason why passengers on buses should receive or expect treatment that they do not receive on the trains or municipal trams. In this connection I would like, to instance the intolerable nuisance caußed by smoking and its concomitant expectoration, indulged in by some passengers, The majority of passengers are women, and their comfort as well as that of the nonsmoker should be considered as against the indulgence of a few men in what is, to many people, a disagreeable practice. Although the most strenuous opponent of the sale of the bus services to the Department, now that they have them, I want to see them make a success of the venture, and will support them in curtailing many privileges usurped by a section of the public from the careless former management.—l am, etc., HUTT COMBINED.