RAILWAY PROBLEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 245, 16 October 1931, Page 6

RAILWAY PROBLEMS.

AN-APATHETIC PUBLIC.

(To the Editor.)

The Railways Board has given- it« , •• If the public will not use the raiwT evidently they do not want them an l must close the unprofitable ones Thi • We beginning of the end and it is we'll the L'n ! should realise the position, Are ,£ j?™ l * pay foreign countries £10,000,000 ner?s t0 for. motors and petrol to run o ur L, m,ln system and scrap our £70.000,000 o f ex -T n railways on which we will still ]~..„ '* ,» £3,000,000 per anmun to pay i n £ esf ° m are we going to run our own transport 41 our own railways and with rollm* stockcoal 'produced, in our own country? If! former, then the sooner our industrial Mn ,,i. tiori emigrates the better, for there till T even less work than now. The apathv nf\i public is well illustrated in the case oL u V ban passenger traffic. From this suburb w£ I reside the fare by rail i≤ exactly half fi bus fare, yet scarcely anyone -uses the raftW safety, economy and comfort counting t nothing so long as a walk of a im hfidS yards Jβ saved. Certainly some improved ' might be suggested in railway transport sti a≤ short trains (one class only) rq n by'li!' engines every fifteen or twenty minutes and landing passenger* nearer the centre of fh city, but would it be wise to risk the nee™ sary expense for such improvements and wonW the public even then wake up to the fact that it is to their own interest to patronise tb : r own railways instead of paying other countr to do our transportation for us? 807