Sunderland Gets £80,000 Fare Rise
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1)11EVISED fares designed to increase
revenue by £80,000 a year have been granted to Sunderland Transport Department. Under the new scales, the distance represented by the Lid. minimum is reduced from l miles to a mile, children's rates are half the adult fare, with Id. minimum, universal returns have been increased from 6d. to Rd., and ordinary transfer tickets have been abolished.
The London Transport Executive have received permission from the Licensing Authority to bring into line with the fares raised on June 5, charges on bus services outside the jurisdiction of the Transport Tribunal. The increases will take effect on Sunday.
B.R.S. TRUNK WORK DOMINATED BY RAIL?
REFERRING to the proposed retention by British Road Services of 7,750 vehicles for trunk work, Mr. N. T. O'Reilly, a member .of the Nation,.al Council of the Road Haulage Association. said last week:
"In the industry, some of us feel very strongly that the power behind this trunk business is railway-minded. It does not sufficiently envisage the fluidity which the manufacturer desires for his traffic."
Road haulage was, he said, an industry of highly specialized groups and was not easy to weld into large monetary combines. If Throgmorton Street could not get the small hauliers into lafge groups, politicians cannot do it," he added.
Mr. O'Reilly was addressing Carlisle Rotary ChM.
NEW TUBES MORE ECONOMIC THAN ROAD WORKS
THE apparent absence of plans for I building express highways through British cities was regretted by Dr. G. Charlesworth, principal scientific officer of the Road Research Laboratory, in an address in Birmingham on Monday, .
He said the economics of alleviating congestion by building tube railways instead of widening city streets would bear investigation. A tube cost £4m. a mile to Construct, whereas it would cost Lim. to widen one-seventh of a mile of the Strand, London. Tube trains could carry a maximum of 42,000 passengers an hour, against a, maximum of only 18,000 an hour on buses.
TOOK WRONG ROUTE: FINED £30
PAIGNTON magistrates last week I fined Greenslades Tours, Ltd., Exeter, £30 for failing to conform with route conditions laid down by the
Western Licensing Authority. They were . also ordered to pay £7 ids. advocate's fee. The driver of the coach involved was fined £4 for aiding and abetting the company, who pleaded guilty, and .£1 for not displaying a public service vehicle driver's badge on his coat.