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Show routes thai is not now so popular, like the one that leaves Cedar City at about 1 :55 a.m. and would arrive in Salt Lake City at about 8 :00 a.m. and one that leaves Salt Lake at 1:30 a.m- and would arrive in Cedar City around 7 :30 a.m. These hours would provide the least revenue for the companies on their present routing, which would be bypassed, by-passed, resulting in a total net gain for the companies, while providing service to these isolated communities which is a dam site better than what they have got now. Let's be realistic, so you spend the night on the bus, see the doctor, dentist or whatever, t?.ke in a movie and cn'tch the bus oack home. A long hard trip sure, but better bet-ter for many than riding all day, spending the night in a hotel then having to return next day. That's what you would have with the rou':e that seemed most desinble to rr.rst at the meeting Tuesday. Leave Cedar City 8:20 a.m. arrive Salt Lake 2 :05 p.m. Leave Salt Lake 1 :00 p.m., arrive ar-rive Cedar City at 6:15 p.m. Connections like that would force a lay over, besides being the most lucrative in the present routine We believe that if we are reasonable in our demands the possibility of gaining this badly needed need-ed service is extremely favorable. A GRATIFYING TURNOUT We were gratified, as we are sure the many administrators ad-ministrators who were involved in setting up the public meeting last Tuesday night to try and influence the Dept. of Commerce and the Officials of Greyhound and Continental Bus Lines of the need for p'ublic transportation transpor-tation from Cedar City to Salt Lake City, via Miners-ville, Miners-ville, Milford, Delta and Eureka. Between eighty and one hundred people, from cities and rural areas, along the entire route, from Minersville to Eureka were on hand to convince the representatives of the bus lines of our need for a round trip route thru the area. Many showed their shock at the coolness with which these officials received their plea for help. It was difficult for them to understand that the bus lines would rather stay with a system that is working, instead of taking a gamble on promises of support on another new route-Though, route-Though, without a doubt, most of those who were "vt the meeting, exaggerated when filling in the information sheets, circulated by the Dept. of Commerce, and it will make impressive reading, though in reality, most of usi will not use the system as many times in a year, as was put down for a month, i These tactics will not for long fool. the people in the know. Years of dealing with rural communities, in similar situation, with similar populations will give the bus officials a much more accurate figure. The facts are of course that we have an excellent chance to get some form of pulblic transportation as the subsequent outcome of this meeting. Either the transcontinental trans-continental bus lines will provide us with the service or, the Dept. of Commerce will be forced to grant a franchise to a small bus line, giving it authority to operate with both freight and passenger service, at all stops from Cedar City to Salt Lake and back. This could possibly make feasible an independent line, such as the Delta Stage. Another outcropping, could be to have ee,ch of the cities along the line join in a cooperative effort, in some form of subsidizing, (ugh, I hate that word) in order to provide this badly needed service. The need is there The question is how best to fill that need, without undue cost, and to provide adequate service. The logical solution, seems simple enough to the uninitiated. Simply move one of the routs now (there are five) traveling Highway 91 between Cedar City and Provo and reroute it up Highway U-130 to Milford, then U-257 to Delta and US-50 & 6 to Provo. The only tiiing left to decide is which of the five to change-Continental change-Continental is out, they have only one route now. That narrows it down to one of the four operated by Grey hound. Everybody immediately says that they want a bus that leaves early in the morning and one one that will return them that night. Beautiful! We say it's ridiculous ridicu-lous You can't have your cacke and eat it too. Beggers can't be choosers and etc. We say, If you're really serious about this thing, you better take a look at one of the |