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BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS FROM THE TRAFFIC AREAS
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Fares Will be a Main 1932 Problem.
WITH regard to our account, on page 387 of last week's issue„ of the methods being pursued by the fares tribunal set up by the Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association, Ltd., it may be taken for certain now that all the Area Traffic Commissioners will pay close attention to the whole subject of fares when they come to consider 1932 applications. The West Midlands Commissioners have explained how they considered it premature to make serious fare adjustments in 1931. --except, of course, in special cases.
Southern Area Schedule Amendments.
TEM Southern Commissioners have intimated that of the considerable number of applications coming in asking for changes in schedule times, fares, etc., only the most important can be considered this year, the rest being adjourned until next year's sittings commence.
Stoke-on-Trent and the Coupon Ticket System.
THE watch committee of Stoke-on Trent Corporation is of the opinion that to abolish the present coupon ticket system would be detrimental to the travelling public, and it recommends that the matter should be brought to the notice of the Traffic Commissioners.
A sub-committee has met representatives of the Potteries Electric Traction Co., Ltd., the Associated North 'Staffs Motorbus Proprietors, Ltd., and Brown's Motor Co. (Tunstall), Ltd., and discussed the question with them. The counter proposal put forward by the operators is that in place of the present coupons return tickets at the same rates should be issued to Persons travelling before 9 a.m. and between the hours of 12.30 p.m. and 2 p.m., such return tickets to be available for the return journey at any time, and that with regard to ahift workers the concession should apply all day. For the time being, at any rate, the coupon system,-is to continue in operation.
A Clergyman Heard by Traffic Commissioners.
A CLERGYMAN of Wingate has pro
tested before the Northern Commissioners, on behalf of his parishioners and other pqople in Wingate, against a previous decision that resulted in the cutting down of the Triumph bus service between Sunderland and Stockton from a frequency of one hour to one of two hours. The Commissioners pointed out that the operator should have made a representation following the receipt by him of complaints from the public, but added that the clergyman's complaint might not prove fruitless. The whole question of proper representation of the public viewpoint is beginning to be considered by Commissioners.
New Great Western Express Schedule.
THE daily Great Western Express coach, which used to leave London always at 9 a.m. for the valley towns of South Wales, now leaves at 10 a.m., and the S a.m. coach from Swansea to London leaves at 9 a.m. The westbound coaches leave the London Terminal Coach Station, Clapham Road, at 10 a.m., noon and midnight. A new route is now taken out of London, this being by way of Shepherd's Bush, Chiswick, the Great West Road, Slough and Oxford ; none of the company's Coaches now uses the ITxbridge-High Wycembe rOute. News Concerning Appeals.
SEVEN appeals against refusals of the
Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner to grant road service licences have been considered by the Minister of Transport, and he has dismissed them all. The Minister has dismissed the appeal of Samuel Johnson, Ltd., against the refusal of the West Midland Commissioners to license a service in Dudley.
Irregular Eastern Applications.
THE Eastern Commissioners are being seriously hampered in their work by applications that are incomplete or in some other way incorrect. As much help as possible is being given to operators in this respect, but in the event of the necessary information not being forthcoming at the time of the sitting, there will be no alternative but to refuse licences.
Co-ordination Sought on London. Manchester Route.
AN endeavour is being made by the
West Midland Commissioners to secure a scheme of co-ordination between operators on the Manchester-Birmingham-London route. Their proposal is to grant backings to licences granted by the other areas, such backings to hold good only up to February 29th, 1932. By that time it is hoped that operators will have got together-sad found a way by which the total number of vehicles may, be limited and fairly apportioned. Standard fares are also desired, and in this respect the Commissioners have asked operators to have ready evidence of cost of operation.
The West Midland Commissioners have so far received 4,259 applications and heard 2,200 of these, of which 101 have been refused. Some 2,000 remain to be beard by. December 31st.