Passenger Transport News
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EXECUTIVE RAN SERVICE IN COMPETITION WITH EMPLOYER
ACOMMISSION appointed in 1945 by the Administrator of Natal has strongly condemned Durban's passenget transport system, and considers that the present organization, by which the city council manages public transport, is inherently unsound and must be altered.
The report recommends that the city council, should retain ownership of the transport undertaking, but should change the system of management by the formation of a controlling board comprising representatives of commercial and industrial interests, as well as city councillors.
The commission deplores that state of affairs which allowed the traffic superintendent of the• transport department, while still employed by the department, to apply for certificates to run a nonEuropean bus service in opposition to his own employer. Normally, it would be the traffic superihtendent's duty to oppose such an application, but the ccimmission found that the city council had had to obtain other professional • services to represent its case against its own traffic superintendent.