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Strong Opposition from Local Councils Overruled by Commissioners
that no single fare should be increased by more than Id. with other "ceiling" increases on return fares. Contract tickets' would be raised by 10 per cent.
These measures were expected to produce £38,000 in a full year and €11,000 in the current year.
Announcing the grant, to take -effect from Sunday, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, chairman, Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, said he thought that more than the lf per cent, passenger resistance, allowed for by the company; would be experienced.
Objections to fares increases proposed by United Automobile Services, Ltd., were withdrawn by the rural district councils of Bridlington, Scalby and Scarborough and Filey Urban District Council when the application came before the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, at Leeds on Monday.
Of the overall increase of £362,000 faced by the company, £25,000 would come from operations within the Yorkshire area, it was stated. The net income of £480,500 to be produced in a full year was little more than the net income return asked for on the occasion of the first application for a fares increase, made in 1951, the Commissioners were told.
Percentage return on capital employed on that basis was 7.6 per cent. Scarborough town services were not included in the application, which was granted.
Three Undertakings Succeed Three undertakings were granted fare increases by the Northern Traffic Commissioners at Newcastle upon Tyne, on Monday.
For South Shields Transport Department, Mr. A. Stansfield said that the proposal was to increase fares on motorbuses and trolleybuses by 4d. and eliminate the odd id. fare. The recent wage settlement would cost the department £28,350 and there would be a deficiency, on the present fare structure, of £17,670 in the next accounting year.
If the application were granted -there would be an accumulated net surplusof £22;611. Told that a surplus of £6,163 was estimated for the followingyear, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, chairman, observed: "Not much margin from an income of nearly f500,000—it is just over the cosi of one bus."
For the Gateshead and District Omnibus Co., Mr. J. L. R.. Croft said that the wages and conditions awards would cost £22,000 a year. The company would also have to find an additional £1,700 to deal with the introduction of the national gratuity scheme. In consequence, the company asked to eliminate the fd. fare, to produce an estimated additional £25,000.
Mr. Croft said that it was estimated that, if granted, the increased fares would result in a net profit of £65,000
for 1961. This would be subject to tax deductions and a -return of 8 per cent. on capital employed was expected.
An application by Newcastle Transport Department, whose main fares application is due to be heard next month, for .consequential increases •on routes running through and in common with Gateshead and District, was granted: Despite objections by two rural councils in its operating area, Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd., were granted fare increases at Keswick, last week.
The increases included Id. on single fares up to 1 Id. on single fares between Is.-1s. 11d.; 2d. on tickets between 2s.-2s. I ld. and a maximum of 8d. on fares of above 2s. lid. Town fares in Workington and Whitehaven, which were increased some time ago, were excepted, £50,800 More to be Found The company's increased operating costs .included £60,450 for higher wages and €.11.,795 for the shorter working week. Total net increased costs of £50,800 had to be faced.
There had been a saving of £2,000 through modernization of the fleet and alteration of services had allowed a reduction in vehicles, which had saved a 95 OBJECTORS TO S. WALES INCREASES
THERE are 95 objections, including 42 I from local authorities, to applications for fare increases by Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd.; Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd.; Red and White Services, Ltd.; South Wales Transport. Co., Ltd.; United Welsh Services, Ltd.; J. James and Sons, Ltd., and Crosville Motor Services, Ltd, They will be heard by the South Wales Traffic Commissioners during the week commencing July 18, at the Council Chamber, Pontypridd, and continuing, if necessary, at the Law Courts, Cardiff, during the week commencing July 25. The applications include revision of fares scales for stage and express services and excursions and tours.
further £7,500. • Revision of cleaning operations had saved £2,500 and internal economies had offset the decline in revenue by £36,000, After being told that Dundee Transport Department was• losing £2,000 a week, the Scottish Traffic Commissioner:; authorized the immediate introduction of new fares at Dundee last week. Figures showed an estimated deficit of £98,000.
Basis of the new fares structure was one mile for the minimum fare of 3d: and Id. for each additional mile or part of a mile, rising to a maximum of is. for a 12-mile circular route. The Id. fare for children travelling to and from school and concessionary fares for old-age pensioners were not changed.
Mr. W. L. Russell, transport engineer and manager, said that even with the new fares there would be no margin to work on. . Fuel price cuts would save them £4,000 in a full year, but that was a very small sum in relation to the total expenditure of over £1m. a year. The last general increase in the city's bus fares was in .1957; since then wages had increased by about £1 a week.
East.Kent Want £92,000 The areas of Hastings, Rye and Faversham will be. those principally affected if the application for fares increases, by the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd.., is granted. The company, faced with additional wage payments of €128,000 per year, have applied to the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners for increases estimated at £92,000.
The proposal is that somesingle fares between 2d..:54-d. should be increased by id. and those over 6d. be increased by Id. Return fares of 7d., 8d., 9d. and 10d. would be increased by Id. and those of lid, and over by Id. or 2d.
Southport Transport Committee last week recommended that fares should be increased. They proposed that id. be added to 2d. and 34. fares and id. to fares of 4d. and more.
After tendering written objection to the successful fares application of Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd., at Keswick last week, Wigton Rural District Council, at their meeting held on the same day as the hearing, decided not to object to a similar application by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.