SHOULD " RETURNS " BE ABOLISHED?
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APOOLING arrangement for the Manchester-Bury bus service, for which the corporations of the terminal towns joined with Salford Corporation, is to terminate, and with it goes the issue of return tickets on this route. Whilst it will continue as a co-ordinated service, it will be changed from a limitedstop express to a pavement service from Whitefield onwards to Bury:
In authorizing these changes at a sitting on Monday, the North-Western Traffic Commi5sioners intimated their view that return fares on buses should
be abolished. They had been introduced, said the chairman, Mr. W. Chamberlain, in the stress of competition, but they should be abandoned and the public given selectivity in
respect of the manner in which it would be carried on the return journey.
In this instance, the return fare was is. 3c1., as against a single fare of M., and the railways opposed the reduction of the single fare to 7id., which was -proposed as the only fair alternative to the withdrawal of the return booking
facilities.
Mr. Mackin, Manchester Corporation's traffic Manager, stated that the buses took 40 minutes for the journey, as 'compared with 20 minutes by train, so that with regard to time the two were not competitive. Since August last, the railway company had introduced cheap single fares.
The new fares, and other adjustments, were allowed.
NO DOOR-TO-DOOR COLLECTION.
" WE have asked for the minimum of reasonable facilities," said Mr. H. Backhouse (solicitor to the Commercial Motor Users Association), in contending' at a sitting of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, in Manchester, on Tuesday, that the new housing estates were entitled to a service of excursions and hours from their 'own shopping centre.
' York Motors (Manchester), Ltd., applied for permission to pick up at is38
Kensington Road, to the north of its garage, and to turn off Barlow Moor Road, at Mersey Bank Avenue, to serve the new Barlow MootEstate.
The chairman (Mr. W. Chamberlain) said that the Commissioners would not allow either perambulation of the city or dog-legged wanderings to pick up passengers. There was no door-to-door collection for coach 'passengers in his area.
It was pointed out that the Barlow Moor Estate residents would still have to walk to their shopping centre, and the Commissioners reserved their decision.
• MORE A.R.O. SECTIONAL BOARDS.
(IN Monday next, Mr. F. A. Walker,
secretary of the passenger and ancillary-users' groups of Associated Road Operators, will attend meetings at Chester and Manchester to deal with the formation of sectional passenger boards of the A.R.O.