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UNLIMITED TRAVEL BY MONTHLY BUS TICKETS LAsGow Transport Committee is willingto give consideration to a suggestion that monthly tickets, costing 12s. and allowing unlimited travel, should be issued on the municipal bus services. Bailie David S. Brown, convener of the committee, gave this assurance to Councillor M. Galpern, when the latter put a question on the subject at a recent meeting.
Councillor Galpern pointed out that private bus companies, who charged 3s. 6d. per week for limited bus travel, issued a monthly ticket at 12s., giving unlimited travel, and he saw no reason why the corporation should not provide similar facilities.
HAVE POLICE POWER TO STOP BUSES IN AIR RAIDS?
AN important point recently arose at Neath, when, in the borough police court, the question was raised as to whether a police officer has power to stop a bus during an air-raid warning and order the occupants of the vehicle to seek shelter.
The case arose because the driver of a vehicle was accused of obstructing a constable in the execution of his duty. The chief constable intimated that the driver refused to obey the instructions of the police officer who was told that the passengers comprised workmen returning home from their jobs and that he had instructions to continue his journey during an " alert" period. The chief constable did not ask for a B28 heavy penalty, but was desirous of establishing the principle that the request of a police officer in such circunastances should be obeyed.
For the defence, it was submitted that the constable had exceeded his duty and that no regulation gave him power to stop a bus during a raid warning. .
The chairman dismissed the case, but the Bench considered that the driver failed to show that spirit of co-operation which should be strongly in evidence at the present time.
LEEDS TO RAISE " CLIPPEES " AGE LIMIT?
A RECOMMENDATION that the age tA limit for women conductors on Leeds Corporation buses and trams be raised from 35 to 40 years was made by the industrial conditions committee of the council. The number of women who have taken the places of men, as conductors, in the Leeds undertaking, or who are in training for that purpose, already approaches the 400 mark.
BOURNEMOUTH BUSMEN GO TO THE MIDLANDS
ABATCH of 22 Bournemouth bus drivers and conductors recently joined the staff of the transport department of Wolverhampton Corporation, which has been badly depleted of its personnel through the war. The men drove to Wolverhampton in 12 of the buses which are being hired from the authorities at Bournemouth for the duration of hostilities.
NO SHORTAGE OF TROLLEYBUS DRIVERS I T has been said that some municipal authorities are faced with a shortage of drivers for trolleybusei, but the idea has been discounted at Darlington by the municipal transport manager. At the moment, trolleybus drivers are reserved at the age of 25 years, and Darlington has a number of men in this category. The position might be different if the age limit were raised, but for the tine being the authorities at Darlington have sufficient men available to maintain all their trolleybus services.
SUNDERLAND'S NEW " UNIVERSAL " TICKET
BY a substantial majority, Sunderland Town Council has approved a recommendation of the transport committee to replace the 2d. universal -return ticket with a lid. universal single ticket on buses and trams, The new ticket will be available for any distance up to 9 a.m, and between 5 and 6 p.m.
Councillor G. H. Morgan, who unsuccessfully opposed the recommendation, said that the whole of the travelling public should pay more and not just workmen.
GUISELEY STATION DEFERRED
PROPOSALS of Aireborough Urban District Council to erect a bus station at White Cross, Guiseley, have been deferred for the time being. Difficulty in obtaining' a suitable site has arisen.