BRADFORD TO BAN BUSES IN ' SHOPPING AREA?
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XCLUS1ON of through traffic and Issi public service vehicles from the main shopping zone is proposed in the boldest scheme yet made for remodelling the centre of Bradford. The scheme, formulated by the city engineer, Mr. S. G. WardIey, provides for inner and outer ring roads, a bus station, a mechanical car park and construction of new civic buildings. In explaining his proposals, Mr. Wardley said that the first principle was to solve the serious problem of traffic congestion.
Whilst the scheme has won general commendation as a design to improve the appearance of the centre of the city, there is criticism both of the suggested ban on through traffic and public service vehicles, and the proposed location of the bus station, which, it is contended, should be farther inside the central 7 rne.
S.R.P.T.A.'s ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AT yesterday's annual conference of the Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association in Pitlochry, a paper, entitled " A Maintenance View of Public Service Vehicles," was read by Mr. W. Gordon Young, chief engineer, Young's Bus Service, Ltd. A resumd of the paper will appear in next week's issue of this journal.
BIG SHEFFIELD ORDER FOR LEYLANDS
A FURTHER order for 91 Leyland bus chassis, of which 78 are Titans,
complete with Leyland metal-framed bus bodies for 56 passengers, has been plated by Sheffield Transport Dept., which this year celebrated its jubilee of 50 years of transport operation. In 3896, when the council first began operating transport, 9,643,000 passengers were carried. Last year the buses and trams carried 307,700,000 passengers.
Since the early 'twenties, when Sheffield first started using Leyland buses, the corporation has taken delivery of nearly 400 vehicles of this make.
INCREASE OF BUSINESS FOR PRESTON
ACC0RD1NG to the annual report, of Preston to Dept., the buses carried 39,934,376 passengers during the past year, against 39,111,159 in 194445. The average number of buses in use was unchanged at 64.
There is now a reserve fund of £107,577, against £100,447 a year ago. Total revenue for the year was £177,311, gross profit £20,400, and net surplus £3,960. In 1944-45 the net profit was £11,380. Receipts rose during the war years by £45,558, but working expenses (which in 1940 amounted to £107,749) increased by £49,161 to £156,910.
QUEST FOR PERFECT BUS SHELTER THE interest taken by Londoners in the design of bus shelters is revealed by the fact that well over 1,000 people have already written to London Transport in connection with the "Perfect Kerbside Shelters" competition. The competition, however, is limited to qualified architects. Judging by letters received, some of the most popular ideas are for antisplash panels, systems for dividing up the people awaiting different buses, route-information panels, devices for protecting waiting travellers from wind, and shelters incorporating seats.
NIGHT SERVICES EXPEDITED
f N the absence of objections by other I operators to Leeds Corporation's application for a licence to run all-night bus services on main tram routes, Major F. S. Eastwood, chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, has issued a short-term permit to expedite introduction of the services, pending the formal hearing of the application.
PAISLEY BUS STRIKE ENDED
r-t A SETTLEMENT has been reached
in the Paisley bus strike, which kept 450 employees of Young's Bus Service, Ltd., and the Paisley and District Omnibus Co., Ltd., idle for two weeks. Services were resumed last Friday.
CHEAPER FARES FOR ONCE?
THE transport committee of Middlesbrough Corporation has approved a reduction in bus fares which will cost the undertaking about £16,000 per annum.
NOTTINGHAM TO SPEND 1158,000 ' MOTTING HAM Transport Corn
mittee decided, on October 4, to spend £158,000 on augmenting the city's bus services. Mr. B. England, transport manager, has been authorized to place orders for 15 oil-enstined buses and 17 trolleybuses, A BALLOT of Huddersfield Transport Cl Department employees on September 30 produced an 88-per-cent.-vote for acceptance of the recommendations which ,he Joint Industrial Council's emergency committee, made in Leeds on September 26, concerning the dispute about the employees' working hours. The embargo on overtime was withdrawn.
The dispute was brought before the J.I.C.'s emergency committee in an application by the local branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union for straight-shift duties in preference to split duties. The Union also asked that operation of general services after 11 p.m, be discontinued from Monday to Friday, but raised no objection to working later on Saturday and Sunday. In making its recommendations, the committee stated that it could not be expected to decide as to the type of duties to be operated in the Huddersfield undertaking, as this was a matter to be solved locally. The position appeared to be complicated by the fact that a number of duties was not covered because of insufficient staff. It was also noted that comparison of the conditions of the spread-over duties in Huddersfield with those of other Yorkshire undertakings was unfavourable.
The committee therefore recommended that an early meeting should be arranged between the parties concerned to agree on the types of duty.