More Villages Will Lose Their Buses
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MANY more villages, and even some towns, will be deprived of bus services to and from shopping centres because of rising costs, according to Maj. F. S. Eastwood, chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners. At Leeds, last week, he pointed out that rural people were being given lifts in private* vehicles, a practice which had increased in the past year in both the East and West Ridings.
The Commissioners granted an application by Hardwick's Services, Ltd., for the withdrawal of a stage service to North Moor, a small village near Wykeham, on the ground that it was not adequately supported and was unremunerative.
Mr. R. W. Anderson, clerk to Scarborough Rural District Council, asked for the retention of the Saturday service in place of the existing Thursday and Saturday journeys. The company were granted a dispensation to test a Saturday-only service' until the end of Jan uwy.
APPEAL FOR HARD STANDING
A TRANSPORT and storage concern,
the Vehicle Supply and Hire Co., Ltd., offered last week to " beautify " a site adjoining their Stockton-on-Tees premises if planning permission was given for them to occupy it. They were appealing against the local authority's refusal to allow them to use the land as hard standing for nine lorries, and for storage of up to 4,000 gas cylinders filled by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., at Billingham.
Mr. G. W. Ison,..depot superintendent. said the depot served an area stretching from the Humber to Carlisle. For the company, a chartered surveyor said they kept the site tidy, and in no way detracted from local amenities. The inquiry closed. •
30 m.p.h. FOR ULSTER LORRIES, HEAVY vehicles which were formerly restricted to 20 m.p.h. at all times are now allowed to travel at 30 m.p.h. in Northern Ireland. The new speed limit came into effect last week.
Other regulations brought into force al the same time remove the necessity of indicating the maximum speed on the side of a vehicle. There are' also modifications to the provisions about brakes which do not operate directly on the wheels, and a tightening-up of regulations about Ole fitting of safety glass in new passengo and goods vehicles.
B.R. DEMURRAGE CHARGES UP
T RADERS keeping railway wagons I and containers for more than one day to load or unload are to be charged higher detention rates. At present the charge, with certain exceptions, is 6s. pet day after the initial " free" period— usually a day. This will rise on January 6 to 9s. per day for the first two days after the "free' period, and 18s. a day afterwards.