London Fares Rise in October
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INCREASES in London Transport I fares will come into effect in October. The estimated additional annual yield is £4.4m., comparing with the £5.3m. originally sought by the British Transport Commission, and the £4.5m. suggested after the Transport Tribunal had ordered modifications.
The 31d. fare will rise to 4d., the 5d. to 6d„ the 80. to 9d. and the 10d. to 11d. The 2d., 7d. and is. fares and above are unaffected.
"NO" TO CHEAP FARES FOR CHILDREN
THE Association of Municipal Corporations have declined to support the campaign of Blyth Corporation for the introduction of half-fares on buses for children up to the age of 15.
The campaign, which started about wo years ago, was supported by many Jcal authorities in Northumberland but as had no success. Several Governlent departments and the Northern icensing Authority have all turned own the proposed extension of halfires on the grounds that cheap fares -e already in operation both on buses id railways for children going to and om school.
DINBURGH SEEK EXTRA £100,000 A YEAR
PPLICAT1ON has been made by Edinburgh Transport Department revise fares scales to yield an extra 30.000 a year. Thirty-three routes listed. The 2d, ticket, it is proposed,
iuld cover two instead of three ges, but the 5d. maximum may be to 4d. There will no longer be a return ticket for early travellers. ,lottingham Corporation have died to the East Midland Licensing thority for approval of a new fares icture intended to simplify the rging system. Portsmouth Transport iartment have lodged an application
the South Eastern Licensing hority to withdraw workmen's fares to increase adult season-ticket rates 10 per cent. Consequent upon a grant of increased fares to South Shields Transport Department, the Northern Licensing Authority has been asked by the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., to amend charges on a number of routes.
SERVICE CUT: HOW TO EARN MORE?
WHEN Southport Corporation were VI' told that winter services of the transport department were to be curtailed to save 16,000, in an effort to offset the addition of £8,000 to the wages bill, a member asked how it would be possible to increase income by reducing services.
Another asked why advertising on the buses was not allowed. The answer was that the income from this source would be about 12,000 and for this small return it was not worth " despoiling " the vehicles.
NEW NORWICH BRANCH 'THE new branch of Brown Brothers, I Ltd., at 14eigham Street, Norwich, has a stock-carrying capacity of over 20,000 sq. ft. At the back of the premises is a tyre-fitting bay. A number of delivery vehicles operates from the branch, which serves traders and transport operators in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Education Needs More Support
MORE encouragement and active support from employers were needed for the greater success of the scheme for the study of road transport practice for the examinations of the Royal Society of Arts, it is stated in the 1953 report of the National Committee on Road Transport Education.
"In the last resort," the report states, "the scheme can only become well established when a substantial proportion of those in the industry, both employers and staff, have come to recognize its advantages."
Candidates' performances improved in the accounts and statistics section, but declined in elements of engineering. A total of 536 candidates worked 1,506 papers, comparing with 644 candidates and 1,689 papers in 1952. The 1953 percentage of first-class passes was 20, second-class passes 53 and failures 27.
RADIUS EXTENSION SOUGHT: B.R.S. FIGURES QUESTIONED
AN application by G. Hunter and Sons (Transport), Ltd., Hull, to extend their permitted radius from 50 to 60 miles for the carriage of food and building materials was heard by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority last week.
Objection was made by British Road Services, for whom Mr. T. P. Jackson said that there were 330 vehicles available at seven depots in Hull. The applicants had never been refused vehicles in the past 12 months.
For the applicants, Mr. R. E. Paterson suggisted that B.R.S. methods of drawing up statistics should be looked into. The figures of vehicle availability put in by the objectors, he said, were questionable. He alleged that a quotation given to a haulier who sought assistance was different from that given to a customer who phoned direct.
The extension of radius was granted in respect of 19 vehicles.