CONGESTED ROADS
Local Bodies Worried (N.Z. Prest Astoclation) AUCKLAND, Sept. 30. Auckland's local bodies must cease treating public transport operators as public enemies, said Mr A. S. Spicer, chairman of the Auckland Transport Board, today on the eve of the board being taken over by the Regional Authority. “I think this has come about by the increasing number of people who own cars and look on buses merely as encumbrances on the road,” he said. “The same thing happened in the United States about eight or 10 years ago,” he said. “The result was that a large number of transport operators both public and private went out of business completely and put their capital into undertakings where they had better opportunities.” Roads became so congested with private vehicles that there had been a complete policy change and now everything possible was being done to encourage public transport services.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30561, 2 October 1964, Page 19
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148CONGESTED ROADS Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30561, 2 October 1964, Page 19
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