FEEDER BUSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 54, 5 March 1930, Page 6

FEEDER BUSES.

A member of the City Council was once reported to have said that opposition to feeder buses was a whim. Possibly a little more experience of this mode of conveyance on a dark wet night would have modified this opinion. Feeder buses are objected to because they involve a break in the service and lengthen the journey. The Transport Board yesterday decided in favour of feeder services for the Blockhouse Bay and Avondale routes, and their decision is not likely to be unanimously approved. The length of both journeys will be increased, and it is one of the arguments in favour of the through service that it saves time.' However, there is a good deal to be said on the other side in these particular cases. Tho Board is not content with the feeder system as it stands. It is reducing the fares for the through journeys,, it is providing up-to-date changing stations, and it will soon have a larger number of cars available for the rush hours, and will run minimum fare cars to connect with the buses. These provisions should reconcile many passengers to the use of this double system of transport. As for the Blockhouse Bay route, if private enterprise is willing to run a feeder service it should be allowed to do so. The Board estimates to make a loss of £1500 on this service and a profit of nearly £6000 on the Avondale one. Why not take the opportunity to cut the loss?