State Concerns Lose to Buckmaster
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A PPEALS by State-owned bus cornti panics and the railways against the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner's grant of a Dunstable-Glasgow express service to Buckmaster Garages, Ltd., have been dismissed. Thus, a case occupying many months has been brought to its final conclusion.
The appellants were United Counties Omnibus Co.. Ltd., the British Transport Commission (for the railways), Scottish Omnibuses. Ltd., and Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd. An appeal by Western S.M.T. against the Metropolitan Commissioner's refusal to grant them a DunstableGlasgow express service has also failed. The Commission, Scottish Omnibuses and Western S.M.T. appealed unsuccessfully against the Eastern Traffic Commissioners' grant of a backing for Buckmaster's service.
In his decision released on Tuesday, the Minister says he agrees with the Commissioners and Mr. S. A. Bailey, the inspector, who heard the appeals, that there was unlikely to be heavy abstraction of traffic from the railways and that the new service would probably attract passengers who would otherwise not travel at all.
Mr. Bailey thought the grant to Buckmaster Garages would cause undue abstraction from Western S.M.T.'s services and recommended that it should be revoked. The Minister disagrees. He says that, as the service was to operate on only a small number of busy holiday week-ends and some of the traffic was likely to be new, Western S.M.T. would not suffer greatly.
MORE LONDON STAGGERING
NEW moves to introduce staggered working hours in central London were announced by the London Travel 'Committee on Monday. Their renewed efforts to persuade employers to stagger hours are gaining success, and the 30,000 Londoners already working on staggered schedules will soon increase in numbers.