MIDNIGHT BUS SERVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 258, 30 October 1926, Page 17

MIDNIGHT BUS SERVICES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In company with many others whose employment compels them to work into the early hours of the morning, I was disagreeably surprised-to find that with the taking over of the Royal Motor Bus service by the City Corporation last night, the midnight, one a.m., and two a.m. bus service to Onehunga had been abolished. However, I suppose such things are only to be expected with the end of competition between the enterprising business people comprising the late bus company and that ponderous unwieldy body, the City Corporation. One would have thought with the absolute monopoly, of the passenger transport services, the city would cater for all classes of the community. Surely, if it paid the bus people to meet the requirements of the night working public, comprising newspaper men, railway post and telegraph, cable company employees and many others, it would be an equal paying proposition for the corporation. It would appear that now the corporation has the monopoly of passenger services, it is its duty to cater for all classes, and I feel sure that the night passenger service could be developed, because the number of nightworkers- in this big city is steadily increasing. It is not necessary that these services should pay, but it is ne that all classes of the community should be catered for as far as cheap transport is concerned. The Ferry Company provides an almost all-: jht launch service, which worked in with the late Onehunga bus service. The Post and Telegraph Department runs a night Press service for all newspapers, entailing a loss of many thousands of pounds a year in the interests of the community as a, whole, by giving it a Press service which is the best in the world, and it is up to the City Corporation to adopt a similar policy of taking the good with the bad, arid catering for the community as a whole, and not only those whose bedtime is limited to eleven p.m. or thereabouts.—l am, etc., OWL.