Agreement at Last on Estate Buses
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AGREEMENT reached between Carlisle Corporation and Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., on the much-disputed bus service to the city's Harraby neighbourhood unit was reported to the Northern Traffic Commissioners at Carlisle last week, when the chairman, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, approved the arrangements.
Mr. J. P. Senior, assistant general manager of Ribble, explained that the new services in the Harraby housing estate, which would come into effect early in July, would have a 20-minute frequency in both directions.
Mr. Hanlon said he was pleased that the matter had ended so pleasantly, as the case, concerning a large housing estate, had been difficult.
Before the first hearing was held, Ribble ran 12 buses per hour outwards from the city centre in the Harraby direction. At the Lakeland Laundry, the service split into three equal parts. Four buses an hour went into the Harraby neighbourhood unit up Cumwhinton Road, four per hour continued up the main London Road to Romanway, where one bus per hour continued to Carleton, and four per hour turned west to the Lightfoot Drive-Blundell Road junction.
The council complained that the neighbourhood unit was not adequately served along one route and that there was potential danger in the use of certain roads.
An agreement had been reached on a redistribution of the existing 12 buses per hour leaving the city centre, thereby increasing the total number entering the neighbourhood unit from four to six per hour. Those six buses would now run round the perimeter route of the Harraby estate.