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Bee Line loses appeal
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• An appeal by Bee Line Roadways Ltd against the decision of the Northern Traffic Commissioners to grant only partially an application for a picking-up point at Billingham Forum for the firm's day excursions from Hartlepools, has been dismissed by the Secretary of State for the Environment.
The Traffic Commissioners decided to allow the application for Sunday excursions only being of the opinion, the Secretary notes, that there was sufficient inconvenience to the public who had to travel from Billingham to Norton on that day to join the Bee Line services.
The company submitted that inconvenience occurred not only on Sundays but also on weekdays and thought the nature of United Automobile Services' existing routes to be unsatisfactory and in addition pointed out that by granting the application on Sundays only, the Traffic Commissioners were protecting less than one-third of United's services from Billingham, and the financial effect on United of removing this protection would be minimal.
In the view of United there was insufficient traffic to justify two operators in the area and it believed that the Traffic Commissioners had rightly considered the fact that United operated a large network of unremunerative stage and express services.
The Secretary of State agrees with the Inspector who held the public inquiry in February that the general inconvenience of travelling to Norton was any worse for the travelling public of Billingham now than it was at he time of a previous application and appeal by the Appellant in 1968. The appeal was therefore dismissed and Bee Line has been required to pay the costs incurred by the inquiry.