Rate rises
Sir, — In reply to D. B. Bruce, a Citizens’ member of the Christchurch Transport Board (September 24), I challenge him to show how the only policy the Citizens’ Association has (reducing rate increases to inadequate levels), has (1) solved any of the city’s transport problems, (2) assisted the board’s operations, or (3) gained new bus passengers. The Citizens’ policy has failed. In their attempt to reduce rates, they have pushed more people off the buses with increased fares, which has inevitably lead to further rate increases. It is not only in East Coast Bays that New Zealanders are demanding changes from the retrenchment policies of the Tories, whether in Central, or local government, A Labour Transport Board .will bfirigchanges that ’the Citizens’ Association seem to have neither the imagination to devise nor the capacity to understand. — Yours, etc.T. N.D. ANDERSON, Labour candidate and
sitting member, Christchurch Transport Board. September 24, 1980.
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