BUS DEVELOPMENTS IN AND AROUND SWANSEA.
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The Municipal Authorities Receive Numerous Applications for Permission to Institute Services,
THDyear 1926 will witness importent developments with regard to bus-service enterprises in the Swansea district if the Swansea Watch Committee will give its assent to the proposals of a number of proprietors. Some of the projects embrace a wide field of operation' and would serve to bring important centres hi Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and other West Wales areas into closer touch with Swansea by frequent services, via Llanelly, from the Newcastle Emlyn district, and to link the mining areas of Mid-Glamorgan with Swansea by providing facilities from the Bridgend locality.
The more important applications for bus licences with which the Swansea authorities are concerned include those of Messrs. .Tohn, of Llanelly, who wish to run buses into .Swansea from Neweastle Emlyn, via Llanelly ; of the Tresilian Motor Co., Ltd., Cardiff, for services from Bridgend to Swansea ; of 'William Jeffries and Co., Ltd., haulage contractors, of Swansea, who project services from Southend to Swansea ; of the Swan Motor Co., of Swansea, who wish to run additional services in the Gower Peninsula, notably on the Pennerd route ; of Messrs. John, of Pouterdulais, for a service from Morriston to Neath, via Birehgrove ; of Messrs. Harriee, of Pontardulais, for permission to institute direct services from Pouterdulais to Swansea ; of Messrs. Lewis Bros., of Pontardulais, for services between Tycoch, Sketty and Swansea, and of Messrs. John and Williams, for a service on the route, WaunarlwyddSwansea. Applications in respect of Purely local services are numerous.
The multiplicity, of applications with regard to new services is due to the de(Asian of the SWansea Watch Committee to consider the question of licensing only once a quarter. Unfortunately Swansea is an old town possessing many narrow 'streets, and this fact prnludes the authorities from agreeing to the demands of all applicants, although they are given some hope for the present and the future in so far as the committee has a definite policy in course of formulation regarding licences.
There are several decisions of interest to all proprietors in Swansea and disc42
trict that have been decided upon by the watch committee. In future a draft agreement between the proprietors and the committee will have to be signed before licences are issued. This includes clauses providing for insurance against injuries to passengers, and stipulations as to charges and times of running. It is also provided that where buses run on the same route as tramcars, proprietors will, in future, be permitted to make a charge 50 per cent. highe. than the fare which obtains on the trams.
It is of interest t. note that the re' port on the annual examination of hackney carriages—buses and taxis—states that the class of vehicle provided by Swansea proprietors has during the past three years shown a tendency to improve. Only three horse-drawn hackney carriages are now licensed, The watch committee has now finally decided to allow the South Wales Transport Co. to run Alpine-type buses from the Royal Institution, Swansea, up Town Hill. Such services will be run half-hourly through the day, except on Saturdays, when a service at 15-minute intervals will apply.