Combined Operations in North Scotland
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PLANS by the Scottish Area Board of the British Transport Commission to preserve the railway line north of Inverness, and to improve long-distance passenger and goods services, are to be implemented in a road-rail co-ordination scheme which will come into effect towards the end of next month.
The railways will concentrate on longdistance services and leave buses to provide short-distance and intermediate facilities.
The Commission's scheme, which has been approved by the Transport Users' Consultative Committee, involves co-ordination with Highland Omnibuses, Ltd., who have a general • manager at Inverness.
He and the railway traffic manager for the northern division are to examine their respective services with a: view to improving co-ordination, and have agreed to maintain close liaison on future developments.
Plans are being made, for example, to provide improved bus services for people at Embo and Dornoch when the branch railway service doses—although the timetable will be "highly unprofitable." Also, better connections will be provided for passengers between rail and bus stations in Inverness.
Cartage facilities are also under review and arrangements are in hand for adequate goods collection and delivery services at Muir of Ord and DomBridge to deal with traffic arising at Fortrose and Dornoch.
FEDERATION BACK DISC PARKING SYSTEM
THE proposed traffic-warden experi1ment should include the parking-disc system, say the British Road Federation. In their current Bulletin, the Federation welcome the Government's decision to recruit a corps of traffic wardens and to try a system of ticket fines for traffic offences.
The Federation state: " Since wardens' duties are to be related to parking offences, it becomes imperative that drivers should know much more clearly than at present where they can park and for how long."
MORE STAFF NEEDED TN order to establish a 44-hour work ing week, a further 125 bus drivers and conductors would be needed by Derby Transport Department, reports Mr. J. E. Frith, general manager.
The department are experiencing their worst-ever staff shortage. With a total of 496 men employed in January, the figure .as shown a drop of 33 since last March.
VANISHING TRAMS
TRAMS will be withdrawn from
RenfieId Street and Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, in June. One service will be re-routed and another replaced by buses. Trams will give way to buses on the Maryhill-Baillieston route in Novern her.