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Some Control Must Be Released
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By A. H. Bourne, Chairman, Croydon and District Motor Coach Owners' Association
THE first effect of the introduction of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, was to check any further progress in the coaching business. Shortly afterwards, some small operators were put out of business and others experienced a considerable loss of traffic, as a result of the Commissioners refusing them express-service licences, because their previous volume of business was not particularly high. This principle Of drastically curtailing services is now being extended to the larger concerns and is proving to be a serious menace to the coach and bus industry.
Examples of • the restrictive conditions are the refusal of some of the Commissioners to authorize the issue of single and period-return tickets on seasonal services from the coast to London, and the standardization of coach fares that may be cut, in some cases by 50 per cent, or more by the railway companies.
The latest memorandum issued by the Ministry Of Transport concerning the proposal to licence contract-carriage work is another instance of hindrance to progress. Picking-up points and
feeder services have been reduced to such an extent that coach traN el is now losing the advantages which it previously held over the railways.
The outlook for the future is, at the moment, , difficult, and I feel strongly that no further restrictions of any kind can be tolerated. Some of the limitations now imposed must be withdrawn. I appeal to the Minister of Transport and the Traffic Commissioners to give us what we have always had in this country—fair play.