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Chesterfield in council estate services clash
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CHESTERFIELD Borough Transport and East Midlands Motor Services clashed over the provision of services to a housing estate before the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners at Leeds on July 10.
Chesterfield applied in March for a new cross-town service between Grangewood Farm Estate and Whittington Moor and this was followed by a counter-application by East Midlands, lodged in April, for a new service into the estate from Chesterfield Bus Station.
The Commissioners were told that discussions had gone on for three years without any agreement being reached.
For East Midlands Peter Fingret said that the company operated services on the periphery of the estate and the proposed Chesterfield Transport service would cause abstraction. He claimed that Chesterfield was reneging on an agreement reached in 1976 when East Midland withdrew its opposition to a variation application by the Transport department.
N. D. G. MacKenzie, general manager of Chesterfield Borough Transport, said the estate was within the borough boundary and the transport department was entitled to seek to operate into it. People had been moved out to the estate from the centre of the town and wanted a service. He agreed there was a possibility of abstraction and said the transport department had been prepared to compensate East Midland for any traffic loss.
The Commissioners reserved decision on the Chesterfield application and adjourned the hearing until July 26.