DIVERSIONS PREFERABLE TO NEW SERVICES
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THE diversion or extension of existing services in Macduff and Banff is preferable to the licensing of new town services. This view is expressed by the Minister of Transport in dismissing an appeal by .Messrs, James S. Simpson against the Scottish ,Traffic Commissioners' refusal to grant them new circular stage services. in the two towns. "Although transport facilities between the housing areas on the hilltops and the town centre and shops in each town were shown to be desirable, the need for the introduction of new town services, as distinct from the diversion or extension of existing services, was not demonstrated before the Commissioners," the decision. states. The Minister reaffirms the existingoperator principle, qualifying his view with the point that each case must be decided on 16 merits. He denies a suggestion made at the inquiry that Messrs. Simpson had been barred from applying for the variation of their existing services between the housing areas and town centres. A remark by the chairman of the Commissioners had been interpreted in this sense.