BUSES IN SYDNEY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 11

BUSES IN SYDNEY

BAN" ON PEIVATE ENTERPRISE (From "The PostV Representative.) SYDNEY, 11th May. When twenty-one years ago last week a mail walked into the Syduey traffic office, and sought a license to operate the first motor-buses known to this city, the puzzled policeman behind the counter dis- ' covered that neither in law nor in the regulations were there any provision for such a vehicle. It marked the birtli of services in Sydney to-day with an annual turnover of nearly £5,000,0,00, yet the pioneer of them finds it far more difficult to-day to get a motor-omnibus plate from the traffic department that he did twentyone years ago. The fact is that the Government has no time for the privately owned buses, because of the mighty cut which they have made into the tram takings. The constant threat of Government interference must be perturbing to tnose with huge capital in the. bus services. Their one crumb of comfort probably is that,, while they cannot expand,' at all events along the main routes, it will take a fortune to buy them out, and that the Government is about as impecunious as a Government can be. One private company alone runs 90 buses;