Where Should a Pick-up Point Be?
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MORTH-WESTERN operators differed
II at Manchester on Monday, over whether it was better, from a road safety point of view, to have a picking-up point on a main road or on a corner. Progress Motors (Chorley), Ltd., 112-114 Market Street, Chorley, sought to delete their existing point at Waterhouse Green Corner, and move it to Preston Road, Whittle-le-Woods, a distance of some 200 yards. They also asked the North Western Traffic Commissioners for permission to introduce an additional point at Park Road, Adlington. They were opposed by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., British Railways and W. Simm and Sons, Mr. E. A. Whitehead, for Progress, claimed that the Waterhouse Green point was in a dangerous position, and the new point was to cater for increasing population. In the past .elderly people had not been able to join some excursions because . they had to walk about half-a-mile to the nearest picking-up point. Mr. G. H. P. I3eames, for the railways, who stated that customer witnesses should have been
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produced, clairried that there were numerous -trainservices from Adlington to the Lancashire coastas it was on the main Manchester-Preston line.
Replying to Mr. J. Backhouse, for Simm, Mr. J. Nightingale, a booking agent for ProgressMotors, said that the new point Was three-quarters-of-a-mile from Simm's nearest point. There would be little danger of traffic abstraction, he said. However, at this juncture the Adlington point was withdrawn from the application.
Mr. Backhouse submitted that one of :the main causes of accidents was the parking of large vehicles on busy main roads. In this case there was no laybY for coaches.
The changed point would mean. the coaches halting only for a few minutes, and thismove had the full approval of the local police, said Mr. Whitehead.
Before making a decision the area would have to be inspected, said Mr. F. Williamson, chairman. It was a moot point whether a picking-up point should be--on ac6rner or-on a main road. "