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OWARTS COACHES' bid to re-establish its Whitehaven town rvices started at a three-day Northern Traffic Commissioners B ring last week, but the number of objections is such that they not be dealt with until next month.
Iwo weekday services and e Sunday service are being Dposed in place of the town rvice withdrawn after the )urt of Appeal effectively Poked its licence (CM, January ), and objections have been iged by Cumberland Motor trvices, Cumbria County Coun, Copeland Borough Council, lerdale District Council, and ur MPs.
Cumberland general manager ;ter Townley said Yeowarts' wn service had lost his cornmy over £109,500 a year, and e new services would cost it 17,000 a year. He accepted that ;me of the loss had been used by cutting fares, but this as necessary to prevent further ss of business.
Cumbria's assistant county irveyor, William Williams, said at Yeowarts' proposals were intrary to the county plan and ould inflict irreparable damage existing services.
He said that Cumbria aPoached 27 private operators ,er the provision of rural seres, but only 16 expressed inrest.
Yeowarts, criticised Cumbria's policy of subsidising the entire network, saying an adequate transport plan demanded the identification of individual route costs. To support only one operator and try to get as many services as possible out of that operator was to abrogate its responsibility.