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Reading Negotiations Break. Down

15th December 1961
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ICU,SSIONS which have been going on for more than a year between 1eading Corporation Transport and the Thames Valley Traction Co., Ltd., Le proposed co-ordination of services have broken down.

was announced at a meeting of Town Council last week when ier chairman of the Transport ttee, under whom negotiations immenced, blamed the Thames Co. for the breakdown.

port by the committee said that, ig a meeting between the two sides )ber, a letter was received from irman of Thames Valley in which he was not prepared at.present .eed further with discussions with to co-ordination of services in its ise because it seemed to him that :dominant benefit to the public be the elimination of the present ve fares arrangement, which ie effected without recourse to a lation scheme.

ould be "very happy" for investia) be initiated with a view to the tion of the protective fares rnent on suitable terms.

committee reported they had :(1 the chairman of the Thames board that they were very dised he was not prepared to with discussions, and were satisat such an arrangement would the public and enable both underto effect economies.

were still "ready and anxious" inue negotiations. • committee regarded protective ; imperative, but would be pre consider relaxation in exchange for the right to run services, either solely or jointly, into the fringe areas outside the borough boundaries, routes to be a matter for negotiation and discussion.

A further letter had been received from the chairman of the Thames. Valley in which he stated: " . . with regard .

to protective fares I quite understand the views of your council as regarding their retention as imperative. In the circumstances I do not think at this stage any useful purpose would be served in pursuing this line of inquiry."

The Traffic Commissioners are to be told of the termination of the discussions.

P.M.T. APPEAL DISMISSED, BUT GRANT MODIFIED BY MINISTER

THE Minister of Transport last week dismissed appeals lodged by Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and S. Turner and Sons, Ltd.. against a.decision by the West Midlands Traffic Commissioners, who had granted a road service licence to Berresford Motors, Ltd., in respect of art express service between Brown Edge and Leek.

In what he described as a "very finely balanced case" the Minister, however, modified the grant to Berresford Motors by deleting three picking-up and setting-down points along the route because the case for the new service from them was insufficiently proved, having regard especially to the margins of differences in costs and timing.

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