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THREE SCHEMES FOR HIGHER GLASGOW FARES
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Edinburgh Faces £508,000 Deficit GLASGOW must raise £1m. and 1.--1 Edinburgh faces a record deficit of £508,000 at the end of the next financial year. So both transport departments must increase fates.
Three separate schemes in Glasgow to offset an estimated loss of £470,000 in the current year and an estimated, deficit of 4939,000 iii the financial year front June are being considered this week by the transport committee.
Each scheme would raise the minimum fare from 3d. to 4d. and retain the maximum fare of Is. Concession fares for elderly people would rise Id. to 2d., to bring in £90,000 against the present estimated deficiency of £530,000.
The question of incentive bonuses to bus crews has been mooted, also a percentage system to step up the amount of collected fares.
The three proposals, submitted by Mr. E. R. L. Fitzpaync, general manager, are designed to raise revenue by £878,000, £962,000 and £1,039,000 respectively. Mr. Fitzpayne said .a major contributory factor in revenue decline was the overtime ban by crews last November and December.
In Edinburgh, Mr. Ronald Cox, general manager, has been instructed to draw up a revised table of fares. He reported that the net estimated deficit up to the end of the current financial year was £61,800.
Pay increases already awarded would amount to £99,000 in a full financial year, and others promised and pending to a further £247,300.
The transport committee has approved a scheme prepared by Mr. Cox as an cconomy measure for a reduction in the frequency of 17 services after 7 p.m. on weekdays and all day on Sundays.
Goodbye, Penny!
THERE seems little hope of saving I Middlesbrough's famous Id. bus fare. The town is the only one in the country still to have one, but last week, at the meeting of the Corporation transport committee, it was recommended that the fare be abolished. An additional £70,000 has to be found in the coming year and the committee also asked that higher fates be sought on all routes, including the introduction of a 5d. ticket.
Present Id., 2d., 3d. and 4d. stages will be replaced by 2d., 3d., 4d. and 5d, fares if the Middlesbrough Council and 'traffic Commissioners approve.
Middlesbrough has had the Id. fare since horse-drawn trams started in 1874. B 13