FEWER USE BUSES
Reasons For Decline Expanded use Of television, increased registration of motor-cars, and growth of suburban shopping centres were major reasons for the decline in bus patronage, the chairman of the Christchurch Transport Board’s finance committee (Mr E. J. Bradshaw) said in a report received by the board yesterday. Severe competition was also still being received from bicycles and power-cycles, he added.
“It is to be hoped that, as the streets become more and more congested, there will be a return to public transport,” he added. The number of passenger journeys on the board’s buses in the year ended March 31 last was 7.7 per cent below that of the preceding year.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30426, 28 April 1964, Page 1
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