THE NEED FOR BUS STATIONS.
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Conditions at Leeds Cited as an Instance of the Need for Better Facilities for the Public.'
THERE are definite signs that the past season has, in many respects, been a record one so far as passenger travel by .road is concerned. After such business as has been transacted this summer by Yorkshire passengertransport concerns, it isfelt in this part of the country that road motor
services have become a definite transport link iu the lives of the people. The popularity of the services has else been responsible for certain shortcomings being brought to light.
A disconcerting feature of regmar bus-service operation is the lack of suitable stations for use by passengers. At Leeds, as in many other towns, this particular subject has come to the fore. In this city the buses draw up at the pavement and at rush times there is considerable disorder in the regulation of passengers. One of our correspondents recently took an opportunity for observing the arrival and departure of regular-service buses at Sovereign Street, one of several bus termini in Leeds. Weather conditions on that day were most unfavourable, and there were at times from 80 to 100 people Waiting for the vehicles.
The buses queue up to depart in the order in which they arrive and, as one goes out, the others move up along the causeway. There is, consequently, no given point for the departing of any bus.