B ristol May Have to Raise Fares MUNICIPAL PURCHASES AND PROPOSALS
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Again: Some Reductions Mooted
BRISTOL passengers will face the prospect of yet another rise in fares if the new wage claim by bus workers (referred to on page 704) is granted. Mr. J. C. Dean, general manager of Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd„ has said that if a new increase of 7s. or 8s. a week were granted, his company would have to find more than £120,000 a year.
For the first time in three years the books, so far as city services were concerned, had balanced as a result of the increased fares introduced on March 1. "Another increase might well be offset by a further decline in bus traffic," said Mr. Dean. Up to the third week in June, the number of people using city services had dropped by 4m., compared with the corresponding period of last year.
Bristol's application to raise fares on country routes is still being considered.
"So far as the Licensing Authority are concerned, they look upon the application as a very modest one," said Major F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, of Doncaster Corporation's application for fare increases to bring in additional revenue of £20,000 a year. It was stated at the hearing that the transport undertaking would lose an estimated £8,847 this year. Details of the proposed increases were given in the July 3 issue of The Commercial Motor.
Mr. V. D. Knox, for the corporation, said that most of the existing fares had applied since 1926. He contended that return fares were becoming a thing of the past. Administratively, they were more expensive than single fares.
An application by United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., to increase fares on 118 services has been granted by the East Midland Licensing Authority.
In the case of 94 services, the principal alterations are that id. will be added to single fares up to 6d., and ordinary workers' midday and weekly return fares are re-scaled. Children's fares and scholars' term tickets are to be based on the new fares, and children's weekly rates are to be increased by 15
per cent. On the other 19 services single fares are increased by Id., return fares by Id., and weekly tickets by 20 per cent.
Period return fares between Bolton and Blackpool are to be increased by 2s. 9d., according to a decision of the North Western Licensing Authority. A. E. Hargreaves, Ltd., Lomax Bros. (Transport), Ltd., and Binns' Motor Coaches, Ltd., all of Bolton, sought to raise the period return fare from 7s. 3d. to 10s.
Leicester Transport Department which, for the second year in succession, has announced a profit of more than 00,000, proposes to reduce most of its fares to approximately Id. a mile.
Messrs. E. Nelson and Sons, Arnside, have been granted permission by the North Western Licensing Authority to reduce Arnside-Morecambe day excursion fares from 4s. 6d. to 4s.
NO REMOVAL ADVERTISING 16i TAUNTON concern of drapers, W. and A. Chapman, Ltd., have been asked to remove from their advertisements on the buses of the Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd., a reference to furniture removals. The British Transport Commission requested the company to make the deletion for reasons of policy.
Chapman's are understood to have refused to do so • and the matter is to be taken up with the National Chamber of Trade.