BUS COSTS AND BUS FARES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 133, 7 June 1929, Page 6

BUS COSTS AND BUS FARES.

The St. Helier's Bay residents have been protesting against the high fares charged on their bus service, and the bus proprietors have been protesting with equal earnestness that the service is only maintaining itself now at the present scale of charges. Now, in the days when lower fares were charged, the bus (in effect) said to the public: "The roads are sd bad that very soon the wear and tear on my tyres will oblige me to raise the fares." Theti excellent roads were provided, for which the public paid, and the bus said, ''The roads are much better, it is true, but that means my" petrol tax is higher; you must pay for the' petrol," and up went the fares. The pool" public again. Xow, it' the public pays for the roads which give longer life to the tyres and the bus and then pays the petrol tax because the roads are better, well, then—if you sed what I mean—doesn't there seem to be a catcft in it somewhere ? ISABEIJ M. CLUETT. -