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SUNDERLAND OPPOSES NEW BUS SERVICES
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THE Northern Area Traffic Commissioners, at their sitting at Sunderland, on October 6, will have before them several applications for irzw services. The Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., is applying for permission to operate a service between Sunderland and North Hylton, formerly operated, jointly, by the "
Northern" and Sunderland Corporation. The latter is also applying for permission to operate the route. The "Northern " is proposing new services from Newcastle to Sunderland via Heworth, Newcastle to Sunderland via Wrekenton, and Easington Lane to South Shields. all pf which are being opposed by Sunderland Corporation.
The corporation, with the Commissioner's approval, intends operating a service from Borough Road to Tunstall Road, Sunderland, and the Sunderland and District Omnibus Co. is objecting.
"NOISE AND SMELL INSEPAR• ABLE FROM BUS GARAGES."
ANappeal against the refusal of Barnoldswick U.D.C. to permit the erection of a motorbus garage on land adjoining Kelbrook Road was heard at a Ministry of Health inquiry, held at Barnaldswick. Yorkshire, last week. The appellant, Mr. Harry Broughton, sought permission to build the garage for Messrs. E. Laycock and Sons, who operate a bus service between Barnoldswick and Skipton.
Mr. Broughton said that, if the appeal was dismissed, part of the land which he had acquired would be left on his hands. He denied that the town planning officer had told him that the area had been zoned for residential E60
purposes. There were already a bakehouse and 29 lock-up garages, and apparently there was no objection to an automatic telephone exchange being built on part of his land. The exchange, he suggested, was just as much a commercial/building as was a bus garage.
Mr. R. La.ycock said that his firm wanted a larger garage, near the start ing point of the bus service. There would be no considerable inconvenience, as the buses were not noisy, and,.. repairs would be carried out during the night, For Barnoldswick U.D.C., it was submitted that the appellant, from the outset, knew the residential nature of the area. Noise and smell, he suggested, were inseparable from bus garages.
PLYMOUTH TO ORDER 25 NEW BUSES.
AT a meeting of Plymouth Transport Committee, held last week, the manager, Mr, Clement Jackson, was authorized to secure quotations for the supply of 25 new buses.
MIDLAND " RED " TO ADD 50 VEHICLES TO ITS FLEET.
AN increase in its existing fleet of 1,216 vehicles by the addition of 50 double-deckers, is to be made by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., of Bearwood, near Birmingham.
An order has been placed with the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., Loughborough, for 50 double-deck, front-entrance, 56-seater bodies, to be constructed to the design of Mr. L. G. Wyndham-Shire, chief engineer of the Midland " Red " Co. The bodies will be mounted on S.O.S. six-cylindered compression-ignition-engined chassis, also designed and built by the bus company.
GLASGOW'S SUCCESSFUL APPEAL
THE Minister of Transport has decreed, that as from September 19, the additional powers of duplication, recently granted to Youngs' Bus Services, Ltd., Paisley, by the Southern Area of Scotland Traffic Commissioners, are .to be withdrawn. This follows an appeal by Glasgow Corporation, against the decision of the Commissioners to grant increased duplication of five additional buses per hour at certain times, and three per hour at others, to Youngs' Bus Services, Ltd., on its service between Clyde Street (Glasgow) and Johnstone.
Glasgow Corporation appealed, both as a competing operator and as a local authority, on the grounds that unnecessary competition and further congestion were being introduced by the Commissioners' decision. It was maintained by the bus company that traffic demands justified the increase.
Mr. D. Oswald Dykes, K.C., reporting to the Minister of Transport, observes that the only part of the increased duplication, allowed by the Commissioners, which he found to be justified was that late on Saturday evenings, and he agreed that there was a degree of congestion of traffic on parts of the route which made it undesirable to increase any service of buses which was not urgently required for the public service. He recommended that, apart from the late night journeys on Saturdays, the measure of duplication on the former licence should be reverted to. An Order, giving effect to the recommendation, has been made by the Minister.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS MANCHESTER'S TRANSPORT.
ASPECIAL committee has been appointed by Manchester Corporation to investigate and to prepare additional facts in connection with the three years plan for abolishing its trams.
PLYMOUTH ACCOUNTS SHOW LOSS OF REVENUE.
A DROP in revenue of nearly .t-1 £4,000 was disclosed at a meeting of Plymouth Transport Committee, held last week. The accounts for the quarter, ended June 30, showed a net deficiency of £4,205.
It is hoped that the abolition of return fares, just decided upon, will go some way to make good this loss of reven ue .
ABERDEEN WANTS TO KEEP ITS TRAMS
I T has been agreed, by Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce Council, that no action be taken regarding a proposal that representation be made to Aberdeen Town Council for the abolishing of the electric tramway service of the city in favour of trolleybuses.
It was pointed out that, against the proposal, the objectors to the trams were practically confined to those who
owned private cars, the objections being based on the fact that their cars were held up at the various tramway stations. it was pointed out that the remedy lay, not in the abolition of the trams, but in the reorganization of the 'system. Edinburgh had largely solved the problem by introducing trams of the most modern type.
It was stated that the traffic problem in the principal streets of the city would never be satisfactorily solved until more parking places had been provided.
SUTTON COLDFIELD WITHDRAWS APPEAL
AN appeal by Sutton Coldfield Corporation against a decision of the West-Midland Traffic Commissioners to permit the operation of double-deck buses through the borough, which was to have been heard on Monday last, has been withdrawn.
The appeal was lodged following the grant, on May 23, of applications by the Midland " Red " Co.