No Compulsion on Bus Routes
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TRA FFIC Commissioners who granted a licence for a bus service could not order the operator to continue if the service was running at a loss, pointed out Sir Myer Galpern (Labour, Shettleston) last week, and he suggested that the Minister of Transport should ensure that a bus service which was the only form of local public transport could not be withdrawn without his .consent. Mr. Fraser replied that in Scotland he had agreed to the withdrawal of one additional bus service provided under . the conditions of consent to the Craigendoran-Arrochar railway closure. The Railways Board had also notified him of the withdrawal of an existing service at lnvershin. but he understood that the station was stiff open, When the conditions of his consent to. a ,rail closure ret.piired a new service to be provided as an alternative to rail. the Railways Board had to see that it continued to run unless or until he varied the conditions, went on the Minister. Where he was notified of the withdrawal of an existing service listed in the consent. he could, if he thought it necessary, vary his consent to require the service to be provided.
Bulk Saves Costs BUM transport of milk to distributors 1-1 often meant a saving in costs of secondary haulage and handling allowances at depots, said Mr. William Ross. the Scottish Secretary, in the Commons last week, These costs, he added, were previously met in the first instance by the Exchequer -and subsequently recovered from the consumer.