"Put Up Children's Fares"
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ANY future application for fare increases made by Sheffield Transport Committee will be looked upon with disfavour by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners unless proposals for higher children's fares are included.
The Commissioners give this warning in a letter to the committee after studying the effect of children's fares charged by the municipal undertaking.
When Sheffield applied for their last fare increases, which came into operation in January, Maj: F. S. Eastwood, chairman, asked for a report 011 children's fares.
Commenting on this report, which was submitted in April, the Commissioners note with some concern that approximately 10 per cent, of passengers carried in the one week were children. The fares received were estimated to be £2,460 out of a total revenue for the week of £70,304. Had the children's fare been more in keeping with the customary half adult fare, the revenue would have been increased by roughly £1,211.
The Commissioners point out that increasing the children's fares to about half the adult charges would increase the annual revenue by about £60.000. To obtain this amount by other means would mean a further increase in the general level of fares, while the children's fare remained static. ' This had to he avoided.