BUS SERVICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19486, 16 November 1926, Page 10

BUS SERVICES.

Sir, —There have been several letters in your columns about the Mount Eden Road buses, but is this all that is going to be done? The Mount Eden Motor Bus Company gave us a very satisfactory service to the city. We have been robbed of this through no fault of ours or theirs, beyond the fact that the bases were too well patronised to please the tramway authorities. If the City Council ran a free bus continuously from Boundary Road to the tram terminus it is no more than it should do, as it would reap considerable profit from the business. Local Resident. Sir, —In the Mount Eden district the number of our conveyances per hour has been reduced from over 12 to under four, resulting in the most vexatious waitings, often in dirty weather at unsheltered corners, and insult is added to injury by the imposition of a 50 per cent, increase in fare (now sixpence instead of fourpence if you have not a concession card), with the added inconvenience of changing vehicles and the further annoyance of slower transport. Irritated to the point of blasphemy by repeated long waitings on the Mount Eden Boad, and living equidistant from that thoroughfare and the Manukau Road, I decided a day or two ago to try out the latter route, which means an extra mile of rails to the city. On this Manukau Road route, when the buses were running, there was less than a three-minute gap between conveyances. Last Wednesday afternoon just after two o'clock, when in desperation, I was driven to abandon the Mount Eden "service," 1 waited at Greenwood's Corner for 15 minutes before a citybound car came along. The authorities will perhaps say that the sixpenny ride can be had for threepence farthing on a concession card, but will they tell you that more often than not there is no bus connection with the outward tram you travel by, and no bus connection to the majority of the city-bound trams? We had a good, efficient, frequent and speedy service up till November 1; now we have a most irritatingly rotten one. Like many more living within the city boundary who use the Mount Eden' route (to say nothing, of the residents of Mount Roskill and outer Mount Eden, which, now run into thousands), I- am very sore on this subject. W.F.Y.S.