THE KAIKORAI BUS SERVICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 6

THE KAIKORAI BUS SERVICE

TO THE EDITOR Sir,—My sympathy is extended to your correspondent "Regular Running " in his fruitless wait for a bus which failed to materialise To my own knowledge and chagrin, full many a time buses fail to materialise on the Kaikorai-Maori Hill-City routes. Departmental explanations, which everyone knows are readily forthcoming, are useless from the point of view of the travelling public. We have to pay a well-salted price for the not very wonderful privilege of riding in a D.C.C. bus, and all I can say, if the so-called " trial" is to settle the question (raised in departmental quarters alone) of the mosi suitable method of hill passenger transport, the unreliability of the bus service will carry its own conviction. Alterations to the times of running between certain hours and unexpected variation of routes may be perfectly understandable to the tramways officials responsible for the " theoretical improvements," but from the long-suffering passengers' viewpoint, these all-too-frequent "amendments" are an enigma. It is obvious, too, that the harassed bus drivers cannot follow out their instructions, or we should not experience the number of time table lapses that we do. Moreover, it is hard to know where to turn for information—the drivers as a rule resent complaints, and even the inspectors are noticeably "short in the grain" or mute when approached by seekers after knowledge—bus time table knowledge. The statement in your footnote to the letter of "Regular Running" that the correspondent's complaint was the first received during the six months' trial must surely have been advanced m humorous vein!—l am, etc., Regular Walking:. . Dunedin, May 16.