U.T.A. Lose Fares Appeal in High Court
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THE Ulster Transport Authority have lost an important fares appeal in the Ulster High Court. Rathcoole Tenants' Association had challenged before the Ulster Transport Tribunal the Authority's right to charge a Is. 8d. return fare between Belfast and Rathcoole and Is. 6d. between Belfast and the Diamond, Rathcoole. Each of these fares, the association contended, should be 2d. cheaper. This was upheld by the Tribunal in July, although Mr. C. A. Nicholson, Q.C., for the U.T.A., submitted that reductions as sought by the association would affect the whole fare structure of the undertaking. The association claimed that the fares in question, were above the maximum permitted by the Tribunal's orders. Lord McDermott, Lord Chief Justice, has dismissed the Authority's, appeal against the Tribunal's decision, and directed that the costs of the AttorneyGeneral at the hearing be met by U.T.A.; and that they also recompense the association's chairman for out-of-pocket expenses.
ADVISORY COUNCIL GIVE UP
BECAUSE the Northern Ireland Ministry of Home Affairs had not sought their opinion for more than a year, the 17 members of the Ulster Road Traffic Advisory Council have resigned, feeling that their efforts have been fruitless. They considered that by an act of dissolution they could achieve more to awaken the authorities to the defects of the road system than by any little that they had been able to accomplish. Mr. R. M. Sayers, chairman, said that the council had done much work on _matters relating to parking and pedestrian crossings, but their recommendations had never been implemented. Proposals to the Ministry of Commerce on the width of new roads had never even reached the department.
TROLLEYBUS BILL'S PROGRESS THE Mexborough and Swinton Traction Bill, which will give authority to discontinue trolleybus services, has gone to the House of Lords.