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irregular points. the operators must be held responsible. This was stated by Mr. G. Leopold Bush, for the Ministry of Transport, when Silver Star Coaches, Porton, were accused at Salisblry, on Tuesday, of picking up and setting down passengers at places other than those stipulated on their road service licence.
He explained that Shergold and White, Ltd., owned the business, and operated a works service between Salisbury and Porton. Observations had revealed that passengers were being picked up and set down at irregular points.
Mr. P. E. G. Mather, defending, pointed out that in wet weather passengers would not walk far when the bus passed close to their homes. Often they would ring the bell, giving the driver the impression that there was an emergency, and would then surge off.the bus.
The company had applied for addi. tional points, he added, but the matter could not be proceeded with because there had been an appeal against the grant of the service and the decision to dismiss the appeal had not been given until the previous day.
, The magistrates imposed fines totalling £7, with £3 3s. costs.
[The appeal mentioned was by Wilts and Dorset Motor Services. Ltd.] £250,000 SCHEME COMPLETED AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
THE Borrowash by-pass, Derbyshire, on the Nottingham-Derby trunk road A52, was opened on Tuesday by Mr. G. R: H. Nugent, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, two months ahead of schedule. This £250,000 road is 2:1 miles long and has an overall width of 120 ft., with two 24-ft. carriageways and a 10-ft. central reserve. Work began in August, 1956.
A52 is one of the busiest roads in the East Midlands and a high proportion of the traffic consists of commercial vehicles.
Two other improvements are planned on the A52. One is a two-carriageway road costing £1.3m. and nearly five miles long which will by-pass Sandiacre and Stapleford. and the other a £303,000 improvement of the road between Wolla ton Vale and Bramcote. When •these schemes have been completed, there will be continuous dual carriageways for nine miles for nearly all the way from Derby to Nottingham.
HIGHER FARES SOUGHT
FARE increases on joint bus services operated in West Bridgford are being sought by Nottingham Corporation and West Bridgford Urban District Council. They propose that on six routes, children should pay 4d. when the adult fare is 7d.
West Bridgford are also seeking fares on a new mileage scale--up to 0.7 mile, 2d.; up to 1.8 miles. 4d.: up to 2.5 miles. 5d.; up to 3.3 miles, 6d.; and up to 4.2 miles, 7d.
[Other news of fares. page 622.]