SERVICE TO LOWER HUTT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 140, 15 June 1928, Page 8

SERVICE TO LOWER HUTT

] (To the Editor.) 1 Sir—When the New Zealand Railways bought the right of bus traffic to Petone and Lower Hutt, they led us to believe that we were to get the same service and conditions that the former bus proprietors gave us. Now they have strayed away from their promise. I should like to ask the authorities, through your columns, why that promise has not been kept. In the former service a return ticket cost Is 6d, and we could travel either way with it, but now we must go in and out. on the one ticket. If the management per used the time-table for the Waterloo section, they will see what long waits theiv are. I will mention one—6.lo p.m. to 9.15 p.m., and no waiting-room provided, but what a loss of time, which is everything to a suburb like Lower Hutt. Before we did not use one ticket, but caughi the bus home twice, which cost us 9d, by the privilege of being able to travel either way for Is Cd. I think lam right when I say 6d either way in the Community Bus, at one time. Train ticket-holders should be able to travel by the buses for 6d extra, and thus save the long waits. 1 feel sure if the Railway Department made a move in this direction, it would help many who cannot afford the wait or th<? Is.—l am, etc., LOWER HUTT.