New Fares for Glasgow, Burton, and -Wilts and Dorset
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L-ROM next Sunday, fares on Glas1 gow Corporation's trams, trolleybuses and motorbuses will be increased. With the exception of the proposals for weekly tickets, the municipal application has been granted in full.
The minimum fare on trams and . trolleybuses will become Id. for one stage and there will be no more odd Id. units in the fare tables. On the motorbuses, the minimum fare becomes 3d. and the weekly 24-journey ticket will cost 5s. The corporation had proposed .introducing a 12-journey ticket costing 3s. The Id. concession fare for children available on trams and trolleybuses during certain periods, is retained.
In a full year, the estimated increase in revenue would be £650,000. At the end of this financial year the deficit should be 000,000.
Experimental H. Stages On January I, Burton-on-Trent Corporation will introduce revised charges on its motorbus services. A limited number of Id. fare stages wilt be introduced as an experiment. Some single fares will go up by Id., others will he reduced by 4d. and a few lowered by id. An extra £6,000 a year revenue is expected from the changes.
Following the hearing, which took place in November, Wilts and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd., has been granted variations affecting charges up to 6d. Season tickets are to be abolished and replaced by weekly tickets, Return tickets costing less than Is. 6d. will be discontinued and scholars' monthly tickets will be replaced by term tickets. The fare tables have been rationalized as regards stage lengths.
These changes apply to the operations of the company in the Western Area, and last week a similar application concerning charges in the SouthEastern Area was heard. Salisbury city fares will not be altered.
Cali for New Inquiry
After a private meeting in Cardiff, last week, the representatives of the 17 local authorities concerned in the applications lodged, by eight local operators to abolish workmen's fares, asked for the case to be heard afresh. This followed the Licensing Authority's decision to put the evidence heard at the earlier sittings to a full bench.
The South Wales Authority did not resume the hearing on December 20. It is expected that another sitting will take place early in the New Year.
For an experimental period, old-age pensioners in Preston are to be offered a Id. concession fare on one route. On other routes the same concession may be offered at a later date, although the North-Western Licensing Authority was of the opinion that the matter should be tried out for six months.
An application for a general increase in fares, the second proposed, has been filed by Barton Transport, Ltd., Notts. affecting 63 services. Additions of 4c1.-2d. to the single fares, and of up to 4d. to the workmen's tickets—to be
A30 calculated on a basis of the revised single rates—are proposed.
In the same traffic area, West Bridgford Transport Department has applied for amended charges. These refer mainly to the 3d. and 31d. tickets, as well as some lid. ones. Fifteen services are affected.
To-day (Friday) the West Midland and Yorkshire Licensing Authorities are to hear the applications of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., and Leeds Corporation, respectively, for general advances in fares.
From January 8-10, and on January 18, the Scottish Licensing Authority will hear the second application for a general increase in fares filed by the companies of the Scottish Omnibuses group. Almost all the local authorities within the companies' spheres of operation are objecting. Smaller operators throughout the Scottish Area have applied for augmented fares on a scale similar to that proposed by the State operators.
Although costs have gone up in the past five years by £215,000 a year, Hull Corporation is to defer for six months an application for higher charges. Economy measures will be examined.
SKIDS IN 5.3 PER CENT. OF ACCIDENTS
A CCORDING to police reports, L–t skidding occurred in 5.3 per cent. of the 146.020 accidents reported on the roads of Britain in 1949, said Mr. C. Giles, of the Road Research Laboratory, in a paper delivered in Glasgow, last week, to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders. The total cost to the community of road accidents in that year was over £100m.
Many of the skidding accidents, said Mr. Giles, occurred on wet roads and tests showed that it was the nature of the road surface that played a major part in causing or preventing skidding.
DAIMLER'S /620,000 ORD1ER FROM N.Z.
A N order said to be worth nearly £620,000 has been placed by Auckland Transport Board for the supply of 90 Daimler Freeline underfioor-engined chassis, together with Saunders-Roe 44-seat bodies. It is claimed that this is the biggest bus order ever placed by New Zealand.