Lyttelton ferry
Sir, — Your - editorial (August ll) adopts the sama
negative approach as that of the Manufacturers’ . Association. If “firms have been giving increased preference to the Railways and the Cook Strait ferry” it is because they have no real choice. .The Union Company service is usually only once a week and is more expensive, as is air freight. It is only . railway subsidies which appear to make coastal shipping uncompetitive. A proper study would show that a combined freight and passenger service direct from Lyttelton could easily beat t’.. 3 alternatives for efficiency, cost and appeal. Lack of adequate inter-island transport is the single most inhibiting factor to the development of much South Island industry. The Government subsidises Wellington commuter trains by 60 per cent ($ll million), and could easily justify- a Lyttelton ferry if it was really inter-i ested in serving South Is-i land industry and travellers, It is not doing this with existing subsidised services. — Yours, etc., D. J. O’ROURKE. August 11, 1980.
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