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Central S.M.T.'s Attitude Criticized
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LOR many years the Lanarkshire town I of Carluke had sought improvement of local services from the Central S.M.T. Co., Ltd., without success. But within a short time of an application being made by Mr. Robert Wilson, Carnwath, to provide town services, the Company and Adam Duncan, Law, had joined forces to oppose it.
This was suggested to the Scottish Traffic Commissioners at Glasgow last week by Mr. J. Law, for Wilson, when his application was continued. Both Central S.M.T. and Duncan also sought extensions in Carluke.
Mr. Law submitted that there were no connecting services between new estates on the outskirts and the town centre. The application had overwhelming local support from the, county and district councils, school authorities and the townspeople. Central S.M.T. had been approached several times for improvements but had said they were unnecessary.
Questioned by Mr. R. Farrell, for Central S.M.T., regarding a railway station service operated since August 24. on short-term licence. Mr. Wilson did not agree that the figures failed to show a payload. There had been a steady increase each day, rising from 36 passengers on the nine timings on the first day, to 236 a week later, he pointed out.
Mr. A. Newman, the company's traffic manager, said they operated three services in the Carluke area, including Lanark to Glasgow every 15 minutes and Carluke to Glasgow every 30 minutes, increasing to five Minutes at peak periods. The applicant had no licences in the Carluke area, he said, and would have to run 14 dead miles daily from Carnwath, He proposed to cover all four services with one vehicle, and his timing appeared to have been made to suit that operation and not to • meet public demand since there was no peak period service.
It was a case of an existing operator facing a newcomer, said Mr. Farrell. If there was a local problem Central S.M.T. should have the first opportunity of dealing with it. They were vitally interested in intermediate traffic and a new operator, with no obligations to the public, and making timings to suit himself, should be refused.
After hearing the application by Central S.M.T. and Adam Duncan to extend into the Crawford Dyke area, the chairman, Mr. W. F. Quin, said the Commissioners would reserve decision. They had to deal with an application by a newcomer to the area, a second by Central S.M.T., who seemed, to some extent, to have failed to meet local needs, and a third by a small operator who had served Carluke from Law and Wishaw for a considerable time, It might well be that the solution was to co-ordinate all the proposed services for the benefit of the town, he concluded.