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PASSENGER TRAFFIC RESULTS AT YORK.

17th July 1928, Page 62
17th July 1928
Page 62
Page 62, 17th July 1928 — PASSENGER TRAFFIC RESULTS AT YORK.
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Some Details of the Working of the Municipal Tramcars, Motorbuses and Trolley-buses.

IN our issue for last week we briefly intimated that the York Corporation had made a profit on the operation of the three types of vehicle utilized in the municipal passenger transport system during the year ended March 31st last.

We now have before us a copy of a -report issued from the city treasurer's office in which cbmparative results for the different forms of transport are clearly set out. The revenue accounts show that the total income on the tramways was £57,354, on the motorbuses 114,342, and on the trolley-buses £4,669, the working expenses being £46,724, £11,044 and £2,496 respectively. Thus it will be seen that the surplus on the working of the tramcars was £10,630, an the motorbuses 13,298 and on the trolley-buses £2,173. Interest and sinking fund charges account for the larger Portion of these sums, so that the net profits are recorded as foliate :—Tramcars, £254; motorbuses, £655; trolley-buses. £279.

The total income from the working of each of the three branches of the transport system was higher than for the previous year, but in each instance the receipts per vehicle-mile showed a falling off, slight in the case of motorbuses and trolley-buses, but almost a, 1d. per mile on the tramcars.

An analysis of the expenditure in curred in running the buses shows that repairs and 'maintenance accounted for 12,377, traffic expenses £5,088,cost of petrol (47,825 gallons were used) £1,671 and general expenses £1,908. Under similar headings for trolley-buses the outgoings were made up as follow ;—Maintenance and repairs, £427; traffic expenses, £1,199; cost of electrical power, £457; general expenses, £413.

In the year under review the tramcars covered 855,756 miles, the petrol buses 303,498 miles and the trolleybuses 78,465 miles, the mileage increases over the previous year being 126,773, 72,690 and 13,341 respectively. With such large increases as these it is obvious that many more passengers were carried, the actual totals being as follow, with the increases shown parenthetically :—Tramcars, 7,141,189

(689,925) ; motorbuses, 1,760,136 (345,863) ; trolley-buses, 594,644 (102,609). The mileages covered and the passengers carried dearly show that the York municipal passenger transport system is developing along sound lines and indicate its worth to the inhabitants.

At the end of last March the York Corporation had 17 Leyland buses in service, eightbeing 26-seaters and the others 20-seaters, and three Railless 20seater trolley-buses.

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