BUS TRAFFIC AT HOME

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 5

BUS TRAFFIC AT HOME

"PERFECTLY AMAZING"

LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL

(By Teleuraph.) (Special to "Tha Evening Post.") . ' ' AUCKLAND, 27th October. "Traffic on the roads in England is perfectly amazing," said Dr. J. WCrawshaw, of Christchurch, who returned by the Eangitiki from- a holidayvisit to - England. "I have not been Home for many years, and that wag one of the developments that struck me most," he said. For some of the time Dr. Crawshaw and- others were on a motoring holiday, camping out at nights. "Do you know," he added,-"on- some -nights we > could scarcely sleep. There seemed to be traffic on the roads all night—heavy lorries, buses, and motor-ears." Buses were everywhere, not merely on the highways, but on the by-ways. Farmers' | wives went to market nowadays in a bus. It was a common sight to see them standing at bus stops with their butter and eggs in their'basketa waiting for the conveyance which picked them up practically at their door and set them down almost exactly at their destination. " For a while Dr. Crawshaw stayed in the, pottery district near one of the northern arterial roads. At all times along that road crowded buses, some of them bent on long journeys—their destinations reading, "London to Manchester," "London to Liverpool," or "London to Edinburgh." They seemed to be undertaking longer and longer journeys. With them were buses which combed the countryside as well, the suburban lines so to speak. "As a corollary," he added, "we noticed that passenger trains were comparatively empty." Another development he noticed, the explanation of which might lie alao in bus traffic, was the building of dwelling houses far out in the country. "Homes are being put right in the centre of the country districts, with no place of employment anywhere near that I could see," he said. "Buses are serving the outlying districts so well that workers can afford to have the benefit of "country air and yet be taken practically from their doorstep right into the city and back again at night, all very cheaply." Roads were aiding the buses. They were almost perfect, and only__once or twice did he see any dust rise after s Vehicle had passed.