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AT its monthly meeting, Wallasey Town Council agreed to a proposal by Major Ashton that the transport co-ordination committee should prepare a scheme for the introduction of combined bus and ferry contracts, to be termed " business contracts."
Aid. Pennington remarked that there were many practical difficulties in the matter. A questionnaire had been addressed to 89 transport authorities and it was found that 61 had no contracts, whilst many of those who had adopted them had abandoned their use after trial, the opinion generally held being that the passenger should pay for his or her journey in spot cash.
Wallasey did not wish to come into conflict with its neighbours or with other transport undertakings, added Aid. Pennington. He had been assured that the Merseyside Co-ordination Committee would meet this month, and this proposal would be eminently a matter for discussion. If Wallasey now established traffic rates that might be regarded with distrust by neighbouring authorities, it would not be in the true spirit of co-ordination.
40-HOUR WEEK FOR WORKERS?
LAST week's annual conference of the passenger group of the Transport and General Workers Union decided to press for a 40-hour week for transport
employees. Equality of pay for men and women was also urged.
Although they were not discussed, resolutions before the meeting called for the revision of time-tables, with a view to reducing the number of proT secutions for speeding, and the reduction of the speed limit on single-deck buses to 25 m.p.h. and on doubledeckers to 20 m.p.h.
STOPPING BUSES BY NIGHT.
ELECTRICAL signal devices, designed by Mr. A. G. Grundy, transport manager of Stalybridge, Hyde, Moseley and Dukinfield• Transport and Electricity Board, are being erected at
request stops in those towns. On pressing a button the prospective passenger is illuminated and the words " bus wanted" show up.
CORPORATION TO DISCUSS TROLLEYBUS QUESTION.
GLASGOW'S municipal transport committee is not enamoured with the proposal to experiment with troIleybuses.
At a meeting of the committee, last week, Bailie Victor Warren, who is a keen protagonist of this form of transport, once again moved that it be remitted to the subcommittee on finance and works to investigate the possibilities of an experimental service of trolleybnses.
The whole question will have to be discussed at a full meeting of the corporation.