CK given the OK
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DESPITE ASSERTIONS by Cardiff City Transport that an indep dent bid for stage services in the city represented a "wart excrescence on the timetables" and was just good old-fashior piracy with the company out to grab what it could, South Wa Traffic Commissioners have granted short-term licences to C Coaches (Cardiff) Ltd.
Commissioners' chairman Ronald Jackson said that in his 19 years' experience he had never been unfortunate enough to listen to such a scathing attack on an operator as that made by Cardiff City Transport. He called for an apology from Michael Parroy who made them but he replied he intended no disrespect and did not seek to apologise.
Applications for two services
between Cardiff bus station Llanrhymney and Cyncoed lowed C.K.'s success in lift Cardiff City Transport's mo poly (CM, February 28), Evidence was given that fares would be substanti. lower than CCT's and it maintained that C.K. had fully appreciated the actual cc involved in running the servic It was also said that the p posed services would do sigr cant damage to the undertaki It would be difficult for it maintain experimental rou , and non-profitable servic would have to be discontinu Increases in fares necessary meet losses in revenue wo only escalate the reductions passenger levels.
C.K. accountant Edward S1 lane said the company would happy with an average of 25 p sengers on the proposed s vices, and questioned abc profits he said C.K. was mc interested in fostering a repu tion for reliability in Cardiff it made £1,000 a year that wet be considered viable.
It did not consider that eitF service would make losses, bu this proved to be the case would isolate the cause and tE action.