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FARES BID LEADS TO TALKS
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rriE Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners at Leeds last week adjourned an application for ai fares increase by Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co. Ltd. The company sought to increase fares on local and out of town stage carriage services in order to restore an operating balance of 1105,000, which on present estimates for 1967 would be reduced to 11,000.
The Chairman of the Commissioners, Mr. H. E. Robson, said they could not agree that the whole of the amount sought should be raised by increased fares. It was asking for the same return on capital as was the position before the particular criteria relating to prices and incomes restraint applied. The Commissioners felt the situation would be met if the application was modified to produce, after allowing for a decrease in traffic, a net yield of £100,000.
The application would be adjourned for the Commissioners to discuss with the objectors and the company the best way of producing that result.
Mr. V. R. Hurwitz represented eight objecting local authorities—the borough councils of Dewsbury, Batley, Morley, Ossett and Spenborough, the urban councils of Heckmondwike and Mirfield, and Wakefield Rural Council.
He said the objectors had every sympathy with the difficulties of the company. The company, however, was seeking to recover the financial position it held three years ago at the expense of the customers, who, because of Government policy, were not in a position to better themselves.
AS REVISED . . .
A REVISED application (CM, last week) for fare increases by Midland Red was granted last week by the West Midland Traffic Commissioners.
The increases, operative from July I, range from a maximum of Id. on fares under 10d. to a maximum of 6d. on fares of 4s. or more—to give an 8 per cent return on capital instead of 10 per cent as originally applied for.
Coach Service Plan: Ayr Town Council has approved in principle a proposal by Quin's Coaches to run a daily express coach service between Ayr and Glasgow with the Glasgow terminal at West Street subway station. Glasgow Corporation is also backing the plan.
Glasgow Revenue Up: Glasgow carried 32,500,000 fewer passengers on municipal buses last year—equal to a 16 per cent drop. But revenue increased by nearly 10 per cent,