TRANSPORT SERVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 22 November 1927, Page 10

TRANSPORT SERVICES.

SUBURBAN DISCONTENT.

METROPOLITAN CONTROL BOARD. RECEIVING GOVERNMENT'S CONSIDERATION. (By Telegraph. — Parliamentary Reporter' WELLINGTON, Monday;,

"ot\ the result of negotiations at prc*ent in train will depend the question of whether legislative action will be taken or not," was the reply of the Minister of Public Works to a question by Mr. Jordan as to the possibility of setting lip a Metropolitan Control Board for the Auckland transport district. The Hon. K. S. Williams- said . his attention had been drawn to the unsatisfactory position in Auckland suburban districts, and the Government was at present in correspondence on the subject. Mr. Jordan, commenting on the Minister s reply, said the position was very serious. There tfas much dissatisfaction. People in Mount Roskill and Ellerslie districts were often unable to get to work because: the buses in the morning were; overcrowded and the service inefficient. Those buses ran only to the tram termini, aftd on arrival'there: passengers found the - tram already crowded. Outside suburban districts should not be dependent on another local body for their transport service. All districts should have representation, there were districts where people had bought land, believing that adequate and efficient services would be maintained, but they found that since the City Council had taken control the services were inadequate, and the fares had been raised 50 per cent. One district some miles from the Technical College had the benefit of services at twopence per return trip for those primary school children who attended the technical classes one day each week. Then the City Council took over the transport and the fare was raised to threepence. No buses were provided for children who attended during (lie afternoon, and on one occasion pupils who had finished tlie morning's work found there were no buses to take them home. The excuse offered when complaint was made was that the service did i not. pay. He regretted. that no! action had been taken towards establishing a Metropolitan Control Board. It was unfair that the City Council should Hve Bole MntroUMf an area 1110 re than S,M ? f t be city area. This fact ' roll by the reSH,t of the X,k'o?*Stlf? 8 r rt Mlities, the ban residents, incut, of .subur-