DECLINE OF NEWPORT'S REVENUE.
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NEWPORT tramways committee has received a report from the tramways manager (Mr. N. j. Young), in which he states that the continued fall in revenue creates a "very disquieting" situation for the bus and tram undertaking.
Mr. Young says that unless improvement takes place a loss of £20,000 on the buses and trams for the 1932 financial year may be anticipated. A report on the result of id. fares indicated that, whereas fares for ld. and lid. stages increased by 280,432, the receipts decreased by £1,992, and that, compared with the receipts of the corresponding half of 1931, when a 14d. minimum obtained, there is a decrease of £4,984 on the total bus receipts for all stages.
U.A.S. SEEKS REDUCED FARES.
DESPITE the increase of 3d. per
gallon in the price of petrol, the -United Automobile Services, Ltd., recently applied to the Northern Traffic Commissioners for permission to reduce the fares op the West AucklandDarlington service. The chairman, Sir John Maxwell, expressed surprise at the application, and refused it. '
INCREASED BUS FARES? IT is reported that there is considerable likelihood of Glasgow and Sunderland Corporations' bus fares being increased as a result of the imposition of an additional 3d. on the price of petrol. This also applies to Swindon, where, we understand, the municipal buses are
being operated at a loss. A special meeting of the transport committee at Swindon is being held to consider the revision of fares and other possible economies.
£60,720 EXTRA TAXATION ON MANCHESTER'S RUSES?
IN a report on the recommendations
of the Salter Conference Mr. R. Stuart Pitcher, general manager of Manchester Corporation's transport undertaking, estimates that the proposed extra taxation would cost his department £60,720 per annum.
Mr. Pitcher points out that the recommendations will also probably be applied to passenger transport, yet the industry was not represented on the Conference.
FIVE COUNCILS SUPPORT APPEAL.
FIVE local authorities supported the
appeal of the Moorfield Bus Co., Yeadon, against the refusal of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners to license a llorsforth-Otley service, via West Chevin. It was stated that the Moorfield service was the only one operating over the Chevin.
RUNNING BUSES "WEATHER PERMITTING?'
THE Northern Traffic Commissioners have granted Middlesbrough Corporation permission to operate a Sunday 10minute service on the Exchange-Stewart Park route, " weather permitting."
ACCRINGTON AND RIBBLE. ACCRINGTON Corporation's transport committee has met Ribble Motor rStemrsniienegs, Ltd., and discussed the interarrangements and the joint services with the company, operated under the terms of the existing agreement.