Bonuses Cut Bus Cleaning Costs
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INCENTIVE bonuses have reduced Edinburgh Transport Department's bus-cleaning costs by £9,372, Mr. W. M. Little, general manager, says in his report fors,the year ended May 28 last, The schemes had not been in operation for a full year and had not so far been introduced at the central garage.
The application of incentive bonuses to the day and night dock inspection was also beginning to bear fruit. Apart from the financial saving, standards of cleaning and maintenance had been preserved. If all sections were operating under incentive conditions, about £30,000 a year could be saved.
Mr. Little reports also that the public relations department was a successful innovation.
Edinburgh's buses carried 13.2m. fewer passengers. than in the previous year—a fall of more than 5 per cent. The decline was most manifest during the week-day off-peak periods and on Sundays. Although off-peak travel had dropped heavily, any attempt to reduce services during those hours was strenuously resisted It appeared, however, to be the only effective Way, apart from increasing fares, of offsetting high costs of operation.
[See "Profit and Loss," page 3981