Controlling Empire Exhibition Traffic
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HOWbus traffic, from outside Glasgow, will be controlled at the Empire Exhibition, which opens in Glasgow in May, was revealed by Mr. Archibald Henderson, chairman of the Southern Scotland Traffic Commiss sioners at an inquiry in Edinburgh, this week.
When an application for a bus tour to the Exhibition was read, and no objections were forthcoming, Mr. Henderson stated that this was the first Exhibition tour they had been asked to deal with in Edinburgh.
" We made it clear in Glasgow, last week," he said, " that the Commissioners were aware that the Exhibition was going to be held, and we assumed there would be a public demand for services to convey people to and from the Exhibition. We therefore do not insist on the same measure of evidence justifying the inauguration of a tour to the Exhibition, as would be the case for a more ordinary occasion.
"Nevertheless, we have to consider two matters in examining these appli
cations. There are the existing facilities, and included in these must be the services contemplated by other operators, and there is, too, the state of traffic in Glasgow, which is somewhat heavy, and at times almost approaching a state of congestion.
"We are asking all operators to accept a route to the Exhibition which, of necessity, would not normally be the most desirable. We are also arranging, subject to the Exhibition committee being able to make the necessary arrangements, for passengers to be set down at a convenient parking place, and not at one of the gates of the Exhibition.
"It is hoped to be able to arrange —and here we have the assistance of the Glasgow police and the committee of the Office of Works—for the buses to be available at the same parking place for taking on their passengers. The whole thing will be planned and designed, so that there will be no dubiety in the minds of operators as to the route they will follow to get to the parking place."