MOTOR 'BUSES IN SYDNEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18357, 24 March 1923, Page 12

MOTOR 'BUSES IN SYDNEY.

OVERLOADING PENALTIES.

'' VtofrMTSAIION ALLEGED.

' -• "■": —• ' - ■• • ' .• [FROM our OWN coHnirsroNDEfT.} ''■'*pi SYDNEY. Maroh 14- , Hardly, a \, week goes by r that several 'bus conductors are not fined in Sydney : for having permitted overloading. So it.'.'.:'•• is that the 'bos proprietors : haw broken ' -; out again with the 'i bitter complaint ■: &$Wm of /all the transport bodies which handled ; passenger ; traffic in' Sydney,i the 'liwes are alone i subjected to * close • penalisation for over-crowding. Ji it contended that tt •_ "the prosecutions continue as they have '$m been -doing* the : 'bus proprietors will nit?' < :£ matfily be driven'out' of the business. flf ' such ; were to happen "• it'.is.almost ■- morally... - certain :! that -i the "• tramway: • system ?• would be "thrown into a state of chaos, and tram . travellers know that ft is bad enough'''■•jagg it;:ii l H|| In" the Sydney district I there are be-![' s tween 300 . and >'. 400 'buses and they move,V •' )';<\ it lis estimated, neatly 900,000 passengers 7;J each week. It;will readily be seen, there- k , fore, that the ''buses -,are' something in 1 the *<;*i nature;.6fj,'»,yboon'£and a blessing to; th* : 1 travellers -.who; formerly \ had to -1 depend . upon the ;.' generally .-, inadequate transport;.. i facilities of this overcrowded city . '•:;'.;.% *■/■' -I I.\. " ■■- ' :■ '