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Service Extensions • Granted
Page 40
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EXTENSIONS to stage services were .1—d secured by Mr. John Carmichael, Glenboig, before the Scottish Traffic Commissioners at Glasgow last week. The first application, involving an extension of services between Moodiesburn and Coatbridge, was opposed by W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd. The existing services covered only peak periods, and, in response to appeals from Moodiesburn residents, a regular halfhour or hourly service throughout the day was sought. Moodiesburn residents gave evidence of continuous traffic between the new housing area and Coatbridge. One witness said that there were 60 public houses in Coatbridge but not one place of refreshment in Moodiesburn. A request for an extension of the applicant's present terminal point at Coatbridge from Church Street to Cliftonhill Park was also granted. The change was dictated by Coatbridge Corporation and the police because of road improvements. For Baxter's Bus Services, Ltd., Coatbridge, Mr. J. Law claimed that the effect of the new terminus would be to place Carmichael on the main route to Airdrie. He recalled past unsuccessful efforts by Carmichael to acquire an Airdrie route_ Operation of the proposed half-hourly service to Cliftonhill would mean abstraction of traffic from Baxter's. Mr. Robert A. Baxter, director of Baxter's, claimed that Carmichael could be given the new facility if obliged to run empty to it from the existing terminus. The application was granted. Mr. W. F. Quin, chairman, observed that the other operator on the route had not objected.
FORTH BRIDGE AND APPROACHES READY IN 1963
THE Government believed that the building of the Forth road bridge was well up to schedule at present. Both the structure itself and the approach roads would be completed by the end of 1963.
This was stated in the House of Commons last week by Mr. Niall Macpherson, Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, in a debate on Scottish roads.
In respect of the Tay bridge, the local authorities hoped to be able to present the provisional order in 1961. The bridge would have to be designed and built after the order had been enacted, and it was impossible for it to be finished at the same time as the Forth bridge. It might be decided to analyse traffic in Edinburgh to determine the need for a by-pass around the city to carry traffic bound for the Forth bridge, said Mr. Macpherson. Plans were in hand to make the Baillieston-Newhouse section of the Glasgow-Edinburgh road a dual carriageway.
[Fifeshire Roads Surveyor has been instructed to plan a motorway between the two bridges.]