Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Public Utilities Commission

— Pétitioner, Greyhound Lines, Inc., is a passenger stage corporation as defined in section 226 of the Public Utilities Code. 1 (See also §§ 211 subd. (c), 216 subd. (a).) In September 1964 respondent Public Utilities Commission of California instituted an investigation on its own motion to determine, among other things, whether petitioner’s rates of fare and service in commutation operations in the San Francisco Bay Area were “reasonable and adequate” and whether petitioner should be ordered to extend its passenger stage (bus) service over certain described routes in San Mateo County and in Contra Costa County.

Following hearings the commission issued its order directing petitioner to institute peak-hour commutation service between (1) the cities of Concord and San Francisco along portions of Ygnacio Valley Road and Oak Grove Road, and (2) the cities of San Bruno and San Francisco via Skyline Boulevard. As will appear, we have concluded that the order should be annulled for lack of the separately stated findings on all material issues required by section 1705. 2

*813 With respect to the two described routes, the only separately stated findings which appear in the decision are…