Belfast Thinks Again : Ipswich Needs £17,500 More
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BELFAST Corporation are to reconskier their plan to increase the minimum adult single fare to 3d. Mtieh criticism of the proposal, aimed at augmenting revenue by £174,000 a year, has been forthcoming and 10 deputations were received by the transport fares and stages sub-committee when they met recently to approve the proposal.
Ipswich Corporation have applied to the Eastern Licensing Authority for permission to advance fares to provide an additional £17,500 a year. The town clerk declared that the need to replace part of the fleet might necessitate a further application.
£9,900 Loss Expected On current charges, the undertaking would lose £9,900 in the year ended March 31, although it had been hoped that the increase which became effective in • March, 1952, would produce a profit of £241. Mileage had been reduced in 1952, but further economies of this nature would cause inconvenience.
Objectors to the application, which proposed a 2d. minimum fare, additions of id. to most single fares and modifications of concessions, suggested that, if granted, the proposed scale would he 100 per cent, above pre-war charges. Decision was reserved.
. Unless fares were increased, Highland Omnibuses. Ltd., which incurred a deficit of £3,143 last year, would lose £15,400 in the current year, it was staled, when application was made for permiss'ion to vary charges. Economies had saved £10,000 in 1952, it was submitted, but in the year, costs had risen by £19,732 and were expected to advance by a further £13,225 this year. The new rates, if granted, would reduce the deficit this year to about £1,000. Decision was reserved.
. Crosville Granted Increases Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., have now received permission from the South Wales Licensing Authority to advance charges on their services in Cardiganshire and Radnorshire, in line with those recently authorized in the North Western Area, Chesterfield Corporation last week applied for permission to introduce a 2d minimum' adult• single fare and revised children's rates in an effort to prevent a loss of £17,457 being incurred in the current year. The general manager„ Mr. E. Deakin declared that television was responsible for a drop in traffic. Decision was reserved.
Durham District Services, Ltd., Darlington, have applied for permission to advance charges on 19 routes.
Bedwas and' Machen Urban District Council are the latest South Wales operators to applyfor modified fares based on mileage. A-scale • sirffilar
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that of the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., is proposed, but with a minimum fare of lid. valid for journeys up to 0.6 mile. Thereafter the scale is 1.8d. per mile up to 2 miles, 1.7 per mile from 2-5 miles and 1.6d. per mile from 5-10 miles,
I.o.T. ARRANGEMENTS • CORTHCOMING meetings of the
Institute of 'Transport include the following:— April 13, Metropolitan section. lecture by Lt.-Col. D. P.,. Stenhouse on Army transport, 50 Portland Place. London, W.I. 5.30 p.m.
April 14. Midland section, annual general meeting. Imperial Hotel, Birmingham. 6.30 p.m.; Yorkshire section, annual general meeting, Great Northern Hotel, Leeds 6.30 P.m.
April 16. Pcktsmouth group, annual general meeting. Portsmouth Chamber of. Commerce, 6.30 pm.; South Eastern group, transport quiz, County Hotel. Maidstone. 6.30 p.m.; South Wales and Monmouthshire section. annual general meeting and debate with Cardiff-Newport Graduate and Student Society, South Wales Institute of Engineers, 7.15 P.m.
April 17, Tees-side section, annual general meeting and brains trust, Cleye:and Scientific and Technical Institution, Middlesbrough, 7 A.m.
ONE EVERY 40 SEC.
CORD production in March was a I record, one vehicle having been completed every 40 seconds of the working day. The total output in March was 20,082 cars, commercial vehicles and tractors. Production is, however, still insufficient to meet demands from home and export markets.
BRIDGE CLOSURE
TTRAFFIC on the Hexham-HaltI whistle road is likely to be dislocated when Haydon Bridge over the South Tyne is closed for repairs for four months this summer. A temporary bridge is being provided, but this will not bear vehicles weighing more than If tons.
IN A LINE OR TWO United Dominions Trust, Ltd., have opened a branch at 6 The Crescent, Taunton.
West Bromwich Town Council have approved advertising on the outside of the municipal buses, estimated to yield £3,434 a year.
The spring meeting of the Midland centre of the Institute of Public Cleansing will be held at Newcastleunder-Lyme on April 24.
The last 10 of 20 Guy Otter oilengined passenger chassis ordered by the Punjab Road Transport Board are on their way to Karachi.
Among the principal guests at the annual dinner of the Institute of Traffic Administration at Southsea on May 2 Will be Lord_Merri vale of Wolverhampton' and Lord Lucas of ,Chilworth.