Operating Aspects of Passenger Transport
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EIRE PASSENGER-TRAFFIC INCREASES
JULY statistics for bus .services in Dublin show that there. was an increase of 1,813,0(10 in the number of passengers carried compared with the same month of 1939. Services in the rest of Eire and the cross-border services also experienced slight increases. In Dublin 122,000 additional vehiclemiles were covered in the month.
In the first seven months of the year passenger receipts in the entire State aggregated £918,578.
WAR SPOILS CHANCE OF RECORD AT ACCRINGTON
THE Mayor of Accrington and chairman of the corporation transport department, Alderman Lord, has informed the town clerk that if traffic on the buses remained as at present raising fares would not be necessary.
The Mayor said that up to August of last year the transport department hoped to establish a record, but, owing to war conditions, revenue decreased
by .£5,954. It had come out satisfactorily, considering reduced fuel and increased costs of material to the extent of 35 per cent. There had been also an increase in wages averaging 7s. per man, costing £3,000 per year.
CO-ORDINATION NOT FEASIBLE PRESTON'S transport manager his reported that, in accordance with the suggestion of the Regional Transport Commissioner, discussions have beeu held with private operators on die question of co-ordination of services so as to reduce generally the number of empty seats. It was agreed that such co-ordination was not feasible, except after the corporation services have closed down.
BOURNEMOUTH HIRING OUT TROLLEYBUSES
AT Bournemouth the municipal transport committee recommends hiring 12 trolleybuses to Wolverhampton Corporation and the hiring to other undertakings of a further 18 trolleybuses if inquiries be received.
HELP FOR BLACK-OUT PASSENGERS
PEOPLE travelling during the blackout will find it easier in future to board and leave London Transport's buses, trams, trolleybuses and Green Line coaches. The Board's engineers have devised a new type of lamp which softly floodlights the boarding platform and the pavement near it. Experts of the Ministry of Home Security and the Ministry of Transport have given their approval and the lamp will be fitted to 1,000 vehicles a week until the whole road fleet of 8,000 vehicles has been equipped by October 30.
Many lamp 'shades were tried in a
number of different positions. The shade finally adopted suggests an oddT shaped ,wind instrument, with three square pipes, through which the light is directed downward. It is fixed under the canopy directly over the top of the platform. The brightest spot in the field of light provides only 0.005 ft. candles.