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Wisdom of Raising Fares Doubted: Charges Increased in Many Areas
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DOUBTS about the wisdom Of increasing fares in the face of diminishing
passenger traffic were voiced at a meeting of Sheffield City Council last week. Commenting on the recent increase, Aid. Robert Colver said, "1 am very dubious about the effects. From inquiries I have made it seems that more people are being driven away from publie transport."
Aid. Sydney Dyson, chairman of the transport committee, pointed out that motor vehicle licences were being issued at the rate of 12,000 a year in Sheffield. One of the tragedies of the city's transpOrt strike was that people got into the habit of sharing private transport and had never returned to the buses.
Fewer vehicles were now being operated during peak periods, reported Aid. Dyson. This had resulted from the change of working hours in some factories, but the position could be improved further if more staggering of working hours took place in industry.
Belfast Corporation have approved proposals of the transport committee to increase the 31d. stage fare to 4d. The 4-4-(1., 5+d. and 61-d. fares have gone up by +d. and the cross-town fare by a sigiilar amount, to 4d. The minimum 3d. fare is not affected by the changes which came into operation last week.
Dearer Season Road and rail fare increases, which will become effective on June 27, were announced by the Ulster Transport Authority last week. Broadly speaking the changes will involve increases of 7+ per cent, on season tickets and freight rates. Fixed additions between +d. and 6d. will be made to single and return fares.
Fare increases have been agreed in two major centres in Scotland. Rises proposed by the transport committee were approved, however, only by the casting vote of the Lord Provost, when the matter was considered by Dundee Council. The new scales will produce an extra £108,000 per year, subject to the Traffic Commissioners'. approval, and the recent wage increases will cost £100,000 per year.
The minimum 3d. fare will now cover a journey of one mile instead of 1-1miles, and Id. will be added to existing charges for each extra mile or part of a mile. Children's fares will go up from 2d. to Fare increases in Edinburgh have been approved by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners and will be operative from next Sunday. The new 3d. minimum will cover only two stages and the maximum charges will be increased from 7d. to 10d.
The transport and electricity committee of Newcastle upon Tyne is recommending increases in fares on trolleybuses and buses. They arc also likely to consider abandoning trolleybuses at an early date.
The committee, which has stated that the recent wage awards will cost £162,006 annually, are also making provision for renewals, costing £250,000 annually, and a further 1500,000 to modernize the old Byker depot.
The revised fares structure, which will abolish the -1d. charge, will increase revenue by an estimated £328,000 per year.
East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd.. who have lodged an application for fares increases,' state that, if granted, the new fares will cover only half the cost of the new wages and conditions award. Single fares below scale will not be raised by more than Id. and the maximum return fare will not be increased by more than 6d. Contract-ticket rates will be raised by 10 per cent.
Application for fares increases has been made by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd. Proposals for urban fares will be based on the mileage scale used at the time of the last application. A separate scale will be used in respect of rural services.
Certain increases -will be sought in respect of those single and scholars' return fares, at present below the scales, and workmen's and miners' return fares.
DESPERATE HAULIER FINED IN AHAULIER who tried to change the identity of two lorries because one of his vehicles was out of action Was fined £30 at Knntsford last week.
James Robert Evans, Town Lane, Mobberley, admitted to fraudulently using an Excise licence, using a lorry without third-party insurance, and using a vehicle without an Excise licence. • ' It was stated for Evans that in addition to having one lorry off the road he was having staff trouble at the time. He changed the identity of two lorries "in desperation."
C DRIVERS' WAGE INCREASE
NEW wage rates have been agreed for drivers of. Schweppes, Ltd. Drivers, over 21 years of age, of vehicles up to 1 ton, will now receive E9 5s. per week. With no restriction on age, drivers of vehicles between 1 and 5 tons will receive £9 Ils.; for vehicles between • 5 and 8 tons, £9 17s.; in the 8-12 tons group,
£10 Is. and over 12 tons, £10 5s.
Drivers of vehicles in excess of 15 tons, operated by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, have received an increase of 2s. per day.
130m. CONTRACT FOR HUNGARY A CONTRACT worth more than
£30m. has been signed with the foreign trading company of Hungary for the supply of vehicles to Eastern Germany. Claimed to be the largest contract negotiated at the Budapest Trade Fair, it calls for 3,200 buses, 900 dumpers and 250 lorries to be delivered between 1962-65.