New Conway Bridge Means Savings for Crosville : Mileage Will Drop
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PROPOSALS for reorganizing 18 services following the completion of
the new. Conway Bridge were put before the North Western Traffic Commissioners, last week, by Crosville Motor Services, Ltd. The old bridge was restricted to single-deckers, so the procedure had been for doubledeck vehicles to be used either side, with short duplicates. The company now wanted to use double-deckers 'throughout, which would involve a speeding up of services, together with some cuts in winter evening frequencies.
• Their application was opposed by the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay • Electric Railway, Ltd., who said -it should be 'refused because there were no acctirate .figures 'of mileage,'operating costs or estimated savings:
Mr. J. Edwarcriones, for Crosville, said that running double-de.ckers throughout would result •in some redundancy, but none of the permanent staff would be dismissed. The application had taken 18 months to prepare as 13 local authorities had been consulted. There was no objection from the public.
Questioned by Mr. J. R. Amphlett, for the Electric Railway, Mr. J. Penketh, Crosville's divisional manager at Llandudno, said there would be an annual Saving. of 300,000-315,000 miles, but he ha'd no' figures of -what the financial saving would be.
To this, Mr. Amphlett pointed out that a speech by Mr. W..J.Crosland Taylor, Crosville's general manager, had indicated that on eight vehicles the saving in tolls would be £2,700, and mileage would drop by 493.000. This meant £37,000 at ls. 6d. per mile, so the total average saving would be £39,700.
A year ago the Electric Railway* bad suggested that £5,000 a year cbuld be raved if Crosville reduced their frequency between Colwyn Bay and Llandudno, basing their calculation on 24d. per mile, However Crosville had then stated,. that the saving could not be more thin 10.08d, per mile, so if their . new figitre ,Were coriect there could have been a serious miscarriage of justice.
Mr. --Penketh replied that totally dderentconsiderations applied to the Llandudno-Colwyn Bay route.
Mr. Edward Jones submitted that the
Electric Railway could not be affected by the proposed changes. The alterations were in the public interest and it was a waste of time to put forward superfluous details in such a case.
Granting the application, Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said the Electric Railway had completely, failed to show that they would be detrimentally affected,