POINT CHEVALIER BUS SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19390, 27 July 1926, Page 6

POINT CHEVALIER BUS SERVICE.

Sir, —The illustrations and article in a recent issue of the Herald regarding the council buses is very interesting, but what, to my mi ml, really matters, is the service they render to the public. I refer particularly to the service on Point Chevalier. We have at present a 20-minute timetable which is not sufficient, as if ytni miss one bus it is too long to wait for another, so most people will not buy council concession cards but patronise the opposition which renders a more frequent service. Therefore the passengers the council gets are largely chance ones. Another annoying tiling is that the council buses only run to the civic square at night-time. Fancy coming out of a picture theatre at night and walking right up Queen Street to the civic square to catch a bus when others pick you up all the way along the road. It would not need any extra time to run the buses to the foot of Queen Street after 6.30 p.m., as at present they arc waiting anything from 5 to 10 minutes on the stand at the civic square for passengers who never come, and they hardly ever pick up a passenger until they reach Pitt Street. I wonder if the "Mayor or the Tramway Committee know of these things and whether they care. «If the council has a genuine desire to cater for the city ratepayers on this route it should put on at least a 10-minute service and run the buses to the foot of Queen Street, and I gamble the returns would be doubled, as there are many others like myself who would regularly patronise the council buses if the service was increased. Why uhould the City Council treat the Oneliunga people so well and their own ratepayers so shabbily ? T. Blake.