Show I WHY HY A COMPETING BUS LINE LIME Testimony vas HIS as given gl at a iI re Il recent cent ent en t hearing heming lica ii ng in i ii Bountiful I iou lit i Iii I that t Ii at it if itt the t he Public lublic Sen iee cr ice Commission ion of at Utah should grant giant the th t he Hampton Kampton- Kich H ich application for Im a certificate cerl i hate for hot hotI the lie I Bountiful 1 1 0 ii n t i Ri I Trans lva ns ion Company to tu operate a ahll bus hll lino 11 between the Bountiful alca and Salt Satt Lake City tho Bam Bam- interests tnt would ohl 11 be b l oil II I to serious competition it Tho gi granting of this I IIi ficat e would u 1 not hot only otil take important onue io I rom the he I operations hut but I mi Iii might i ht load to I o issuance is a n cc ol of o f other ot Ii ci It Hing cO similar S la ie ie- quests qu ts nl a feet feel ing other at her territories cl icil by this I Ii is pioneer P i 0 I int i u I c ii rhan line lino might bo hc bothe 11 the Ih I h moans of its abandonment Such a cata rat ast recently hap hap- to tho III I he i in i II Utah county and a n repetition of oC the tho I same ame in iii Davis lavis county would have t consequences Tho llie hI question tion is not hether whether u bus hus son ico cc I to tn I o tho I Ii e Bountiful I ii I I In I area al' al is necessary al' al hut but whether u bet her his this t I fran fran- franchise franchi chise chi e should bo he given RI n to a new croup who ho ho ha ha had no UI public transportation I fl experience In fairness to one of oC th lie hens hens' heaviest iest i taxpayers ls in our OUI county we WC s holies o tlC the opportunity should first bo hI gln g gis ln en to 10 the thC interests to bus service The Railroad under tinder its I I S subsidiary di a ry the t Ii c B a r Transportation Transport at ton Company operated opel-at opel etl buses between Salt Lake City and anil n and intermediate int points un un- until Until til February 1943 1143 at which time the Office of Defense lion tion at Washington D. D C. C issued orders compelling the tho th suspension of its bus hus operation in Iii order to conserve vital vil transportation equipment material and supplies Including rubber r and gasoline This order of the tho Office of De De- Defense Transportation was followed by hy a similar order from the th Pub Pub- Public Public lic lie Service Commission of Utah L Land and after receiving the orders from these two commissions the Bamberger Transportation Transport at ion Com Corn Company Company pany was ordered to sell its buses buse with the Die assurance that at the end cot I of the th war it should again be bo per pe permitted to ro establish re-establish bus service bet wen Salt ke City and anel Ogdon Ogder I immediately ly after In September 1945 the fhe amber Bamber- Bamberger ger gel Transportation Company or or- ordered dered five new modern General Motors 1 33 passenger inter city type buses and since that time timo have done possible to expedite exp dite delivery deli and at the re cent hearing Mr 1 Julian Bomber Bomber- Bomberger ger stated slated that this equipment I would be lie delivered in a few IV weeks w eks ind nel thereupon th Bamberger Trans Trans- Transportation Transportation Company will not only operate a bus hus service between Salt Sail Lake City Davis county and OR Og ORdon g- g den don but hut will also al o have havo a Bountiful loop similar via Woods Cross and via Val Vol Verda With this information before beCore the business interest and the thc traveling public in the Bountiful Bountiful- Centerville area we are arc sure that the people of this community should support the Bamberger of of- offer offer offer fer and the application of the new bus company should be withdrawn at least until the present operators have demonstrated their service as we feel that the Bamberger in in- interests in- in crests should be commended for forthe forthe forthe the service it has given Davis county and the entire territory be be- between between between tween Salt Lake City and Ogden during dUling the war period Hearing of the above application will be continued at the Legion hall in Bountiful on Monday Sep Sep- September September before the Public Service Commission of Utah |