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Middlesbrough Expect An Extra £50,000

27th May 1960, Page 47
27th May 1960
Page 47
Page 47, 27th May 1960 — Middlesbrough Expect An Extra £50,000
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EXTRA annual revenue of £50,000 is ,1-4 expected by Middlesbrough Transport Department following a grant of fares increases by the Northern Traffic Commissioners, last week. Approving the application, Mr, J. A. T. Hanlon, chairman, said that the Id. minimum fare would be retained and there would be a " very reasonable" maximum charge of 4d. Journeys covered by a2d. fare will now be reduced from 2.1 to 1.4 miles; 3d. fare, from 3.5 to 2.8 miles. All journeys above 2.8 miles will cost 4d.

Stockton Transport Department and United Automobile Services, Ltd., will use the new fares schedules on the routes where they operate services in conjunction with the Middlesbrough undertaking. Tees-side Railless Traction Board have also obtained permission to increase fares.

An application to increase fares has also been made by South Shields Transport Department. A general increase of 4-cl. is sought but the basic fare of 2d. will not be altered. Most children's fares will remain at Id.

Last week Mr. R. F. Bushrod, general manager of the Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd., stated that travellers in north Lincolnshire rural areas may have to face increased fares and further reduction of unremunerative services.

Faced with a wage increase of £170,000 a year the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd. stated this week •that they have no alternative but to submit an application to increase fares on stage services.

The main proposals will affect single fares, but increases are also proposed on ordinary, specified workmen's and business return fares, Long-distance express fares will be considered separately.

WHY 16m. PEOPLE ARE LOST VERY television licence in Glasgow kept two people at home for two evenings a week. Each additional car licence meant the loss of a bus passenger twice a day. There were 25,000 new television licences and 8,000 car licences each year in the city, and the transport department were being deprived of 16m. passengers annually.

The Scottish Traffic Commissioners were told this last week when they approved new fare scales for Glasgow municipal buses. It was the department's 10th application for increases since the end of the war.

A meeting is to be held with the British Transport Commission to discuss feeder services to railway stations. These will stimulate the use of the newly electrified lines.

IMPROVED COMMUNICATIONS

ROAD communications from East .1.‘ Anglia to the Midlands are to be improved. A scheme for a new bridge at St. Neots, estimated to cost £690,000, is being prepared, said Mr. John Hay, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, in the House of Commons last week.


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