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COUNCIL

DEC 18 1972

The Corporation of the City
Of Port Coquitlam,

2272 McAllister Avemue,
Port Coquitian, B. C.

Attenticn: R.A. Freeman
City Clerk

Dear Sirs

Res: Application of Maple Ridge Bus Services
itd. to Discontinue Bus Services now
Provided Between Haney and Essondale

Car: ? Hospital Eaployees. .

fhis is to acknowledge receipt of your letter written with regard
to, the above application. Your coments hava been noted and the consern
of the Municipal Council is understood.

‘The applicant, Maple Ridge Bus Service Ltd., has based its appli-~
cation on repregentasions that it is now, and has been in the past,
losing substantial monies on the operation of the Essondale workers’ bus
runs. Finencial statenents and details of revenue received, passengers
carried, and miles operated, have been submitted in connection with the
application.

For many years, the bus company received a subsidy to suppoit the
Essondale service but that subsidy was discontinued in 1970 and, despite
a substantial increase in bus fares at that tine, the carrier contends
that the service is operating at a loss. Ths carrier advises that he haa
attempted to obtain another subsidy without success.

The Public Utilities Comission is a purely regulatory body and has ©
no funds at its disposal to subsidize any transport service. It is
possible, therefore, that if after a full investigation of the application
has been cormleted and the representations of the applicant seem to be
substantiated, the Commission could be in the position of having little
alternative but to approve the application.