Arizona sun., 1955-06-03
Whot A Record To Be Proud Of!
Vote Aooisnt The Sale! Vote No!


yatey.owned line At the present tme the city bus lines
give at least hourly services on every city ne ;.a
whereas Metropolitan has 2hour service on SIX nnes
and four lines they give no service at all on sundays
and holidays.
The city lines give service as late at l 10 am on
every city line while seven lines the Metropolitan
have their last at 6:45 pm and these seven lines
give no service in the evening at ALL
The city continued to charge only 10 cents tor the
theirs to Is cents city has cent ares Tor scnool
children and what about the bus loads of under
privileged children going to the annual Christmas party
given by the Eks Lodge when the city donates the bus
and the city bus drivers perform this this fendy
CONTINUE IF THE CITY LINES ARE SOLD?)
In privately owned SYSTEM if a line does not pay,
the corporation commission will discontinue that line
But the city bus lines not regulated by the Corpora
ton Commission, city bus lines more sensitive
to the complaints of the people, and many, city lines
continue to give service though they do not pay
and they make it up on other lmes.e
few years ago the city bus drivers started three
lines their free time, and they are now good
paying lines In 1853, for example, instead OF raise
in pay which would have cost the city $4,000, these
preferred instead to have the money used for new
Then in 1854 the city bus lines gave eight buses,
valued at almost to other city departments such
receiving any payment pay .N for them m A '~-~~'
Then, too, our city-owned bus lines received an
award of merit from the National Safety Council and
spcia citation from the American Transit Association
for the safety of the bus operations.
Yes, city-owned bus lines now giving and would
system VOTE AGAINST THE SALE VOTE mo-
IF THE CITY LATER BUYS THE METROPOl1-
TAN LINES i'll order to have unified system owned by
the city, the Metropolitan will not lose anything
The city can pay the same amount which the pro
posed purchaser is offering to pay the Metropolitan
and thus the entire amount of 1898 900 which the Metro
politan (Which includes $4,000 in taxes to the
city Of Phoenix), will then be paid off in full
BUS RIDERS We have better service if we
have unified SYSTEM with town lines and better
schedules without charge for transfers. Both lines
should be unified city-owned system, under a
sparate City Transit Authority and thus take politics
out of city bus lines "We would then have one of
o1cinn
of the special survey made in 1947
And the city politicians made mistake at that
time in not acquiring the other lines when they were
offered for sale to the city at very low price.
This citizens committee pledges itself, that after
the voters defeat the sale proposal June g. this
mittee will be enlarged and will continue to work for
both lines to be unified for independent city transit
authority to take politics out of the city bus lines and
to carry out the accommodations Of the 1947 survey
Let continue to have faith in ourselves. Our
city bus lines have made excellent record for 80 years.
Do not sell city short. VOTE AGAINST THE
PROPOSED SALE VOTE mo"