INCREASED FARES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 9

INCREASED FARES

ON CITY BUS RUNS

TRAM FARES NOT YET FIXED

With the amendment of the proposals made by the City Council, the Metropolitan Licensing Authority yesterday authorised increases in bus fares on city runs.- The question of increasing one-section tramway fares, the subject of several debates at council meetings, does not come before the Licensing Authority (which is concerned only with motor ' transport), but has been referred by the City Council to the Minister of Industries and Commerce. ;

The Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, is chairman of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, and there were also present at the sitting yesterday Suunciiiors M. F. Luckie and W. J. Gaudin.

The new fares, which will not come into force until, a decision is announced as to tram fares, provide for an increase of one penny • on the Happy Valley, Brooklyn, Brooklyn West, Kilbirnie, Roseneath, and Hataitai services on cash rides, and for a uniform system of cash fares and concession tickets. Cash fares will be: One section, 3d; two sections, 4d; three sections, sd; and four sections, 6d, Concession tickets of 12 rides will cost 2s 6d for single section tickets, two-sectipn tickets .3s 6d, three-section 4s 6d, and four-section ss.

On the Northland service the amended cash fares will mean » reduction of one penny on the Glasgow StreetMoana Road sections of the route, and on the Karori route the City-Karori Post Office terminus fare will be reduced one penny. All Karori buses will be run from the old Central Library building instead of some leaving from Te Aro Post Office.

Objectors to the proposed increases were invited to make representations in person or in writing. The only objections received were stated by letter from the Vogeltown and Mornington Electors' Association. The association objected to the increase on the Brooklyn-Mornington bus service, on the grounds that it would differentiate between three-section tram passengers and three-section town and bus passengers and that the increase proposed was excessive. In their opinion, the bus. section was merely a third section of the transport system and should be so- treated, but the combined fare was much in excess of that for an equal distance by tram. ■ The application, made by the council, on the recommendation of the tramways committee, was that the charge for the bus and tram transfer ticket, used on the Mornington-G.P.O. and Roseneath-Courtenay Place runs, should be increased from 4s to 5s (12 rides), but after a discussion in committee of the representations made the I authority decided that the charge I should be 4s 6d for twelve rides.