Dispute Over Increased Services
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A JOINT application presented by ink Cardiff and Newport Corporations for an increased frequency in the bus services operating over the 12-mile route between the two towns has been partly heard by the South Wales Traffic Commissioners, and adjourned until October 10.
Mr. Russell John, objecting on behalf of the Red and White and Western Welsh companies, intimated that they would later apply for increased frequency on the route. The Great Western Railway Co. objected, on the grounds that an increased frequency was unnecessary. Mr. Tapper Jones, for the corporations, reviewed at some length the history of the joint service, with its variations of frequency and its partial restoration last November after curtailment during the war. He stressed the urgent need for an improved service, and added that a question about it had been asked in the House of Commons.
"1 sincerely hope," said Mr. Tapper Jones," that the Minister of Transport, in other questions that may be submitted to him, will answer with more completeness than he did on that occaskin. He' suggested that the local authorities had submitted to this acute problem and •taken no action, whereas in actual fact that was far from being so. The reply given by the Minister seemed to suggest that we had been careless, and I can only express a hope that he may be more careful in his observations in future."
Mr. Jones called witnesses to prove that they had suffered great inconvenience through inability to board buses. An employer of labour from a factory mid-way between the two towns complained that his workers were continually-arriving late because they were left behind by the buses.
Mr. John W. Dunning, Cardiff's traffic manager, also emphasized the necessity of an improved service. . 14e ,thbught that the other operator4 were placing on their long-distance services a short-distance function, which redounded to the detriment of long-distance travellers.