LYALL BAY BUSES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 40, 15 August 1930, Page 8

LYALL BAY BUSES

(To the Editor.)

Sir,— -Yeeterday I heard what I hope was only a rumour, to the effect that a very popular bus, the 8.5 a.m. from Lyall Bay, is to be taken off the run. If that is so, there will be a good few people who will feel aggrieved. The necessity for discontinuing this service I fail to see. It is always filled to its capacity, and at present concession cards yield fourpence a ride. Admitted that trams are more revenue-producing than buses. However, with the present profits winging their way into the tramways, I cannot see why we, the residents of Lyall Bay, should be deprived of the little comfort this bus gives us. . '

Now I know several to whom the 8.5 bus is a god-send. I'm one of them. Not only is it more pleasant this weather, but should the 8 o'clock tram manage to slip by without us (which it often does in the winter), that bus —five minutes later —not only catches up the time, but also gains a minute or two, and who wants to be late? If the bus is put off, what will happen to it and its driver? Probably the bus—which is an observation one —will lie idle till 10 o'clock, when, with a load of passengers, it will tour Wellington. Strange to say, that bus, with its full load, is to be removed from the 8.5 trip, yet I myself have seen it round the bays with four passengers aboard.

If this needed service is not run. a. man will/lose that much wage, and I don't see that expenditure will show a great decrease. It is a recognised fact that a large bus like our "Mack" will cost a good deal if left idle. Depreciation, it has been proved, takes its toll of stationary motors just as it does those in use. Now perhaps some person "in the know" will come to my assistance by enlightening me with the answers to the above questions.—l am, etc.,

QUENTYN MEYNELL,

14th August.