Carlisle Pressure for Smoking Ban
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CARLISLE, northernmost outpost of Ribble Motor SerVices, seems to be determined to try to bring the red Ribble buses into line with other companies operating into the city where no-smoking is concerned.
Last week, Carlisle City Council, on the recommendation of itS highways committee, decided to continue to press Ribble to ban smoking on the lower decks of its buses.
Health committee chairman, Councillor H. Little, said that Ribble was under a moral obligation to customers to prohibit smoking. Ten minutes was the average time speht on a bus in the city and that was not asking too much of the passengers. The day after the City Council meeting. the Carlisle Health Executive Council also came out in support of the Carlisle Medical Officer, Dr_ J. L. Rennie, in his campaign to restrict smoking in Ribble buses serving the city, on the lower decks of double-deckers and the front of single deckers. The decision was made Mth only one dissenting vote.
• Ribble has claimed that only a few people feel strongly about smoking on buses and that a lower deck ban is not wanted by most Carlisle passengers. United, Western S.M.T. and Cumberland motor services, all operating into Carlisle, have introduced a smoking ban in recent months.