"BETTER SERVICE"

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 64, 12 September 1924, Page 8

"BETTER SERVICE"

SUpTOB TRANSPOB.T AS RAILWAY " FEEDER.

_srhe aßoro -letter 'wW referred to the Railway^ 'Department,' which ; informs "The_ Post" that ;i-the' tickets for the combined bus and train journey do not as:.: is iuferred, ; :.inflict_ any injustice on regular travellers. :;V,The'innovation was lntroduced-for r : the-v purpose of-" givin«better -.sernceJSand—providing;-, traffic! Tire results have amply justified the measures taken, .-ahd-Rpresumably- the' benefits are appreciated-by'.those concerned. . ' -.- .:,' L.v- . :,.:: -.-.:.■

The Department claims that it is entitled to take all reasonable measures 'to reclaim .traffic' that?has;been- diverted to the roads, and will make every effort to do so.-.---Any--. additional-revenue- derived ,-w^l ultimately .reflect to. the .advantage of taxpayers an.general.;U";;,J; ;■ ,; .The economic waste to the country !tnat_takes place by-the action of motors running .ih-.:direct;Voppositionvtb! the. railway cannot be allowed td""c6ritinu'e, and lt^is the endeayourof the. Eailway Department to'assist^ as'in'this'case, those mptor firms that work.in. ..conjunction with railways and act "as;'feeders,- 'and to guide the activities i of- motor, transport into;-the channels-at 1 can best • fill, that is, to work with the' railway and not against it ; --and = run,in those parts ot: the country where, there"are no rail;ivays. ■—'--■-'■ ■ ..- ■ :■: •■

■ -Bespecting.^the^suggestion- that: the\6o trip tickets should be reinstated theDepartment informs "The" Post" that the issue of these'tickets'" was discontinued some seven years-ago-,"because of th"c extent tb which th'eyP we're abused, and the Department thereby defrauded. Recognising, however,' that^ the entire abolition of all the commutation tickets airtight inflict hardship '6ir'workers, it ;was decided to institute' the 12 trip ticKets to meet their requirements. The (Tittes charged. f<jr these.tickets and for tlra workers '* -weekly "tickets -are" very ,3-easonable. The workers' railway fares jti; NBvv-.ZeSland v-aTe:ramong the lowest jrfthe world;>and "in'the caise"of~Lowei-Hhtt-Wellington work out at less than 3d "per trip, .for-the 8-mile "journey.- ■