BRIGHTON REPORT ACCEPTED
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ON Monday night, Brighton General Purposes Committee approved, by 24 votes to three, the principle of a report by independent experts on the proposal to pool company and muni cipal services. Only -27 of the 72 members voted.
As already reported in The Commercial' Motor, it is recommended that the bus services of Brighton, Hove and District Omnibus Co., Ltd., should be run jointly with the corporation's system, the trams to be replaced by trolleybuses or motorbuses.
FREE TRAVEL ISSUE AGAIN.
THAT the age limit for the free conveyance of children from Balloch to Glasgow should be reduced from five to three years was urged by the L.M.S. and L.N.E. Railway companies, before the Southern Scotland Traffic Commissioners, at Glasgow, last week. The railway companies opposed an application by the Central S.M.T. Co., Ltd., for the renewal of a licence for a service from Balloch to Glasgow. It was supported by Glasgow Corporation, Dumbarton County Council, and Dumbarton and Clydebank Town Councils. For Glasgow Corporation it was explained that the age limit on municipal tram and bus services was five years. The corporation had a service to Radnor Park, and, if the age limit for the Central S.M.T. company were reduced, there would he the anomaly of two services on the same route with different age limits.
It was emphasized on behalf of the railways that the age limit for railway travel was three years. Only four bus companies in the area had a, limit of five years.' Decision was reserved.