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Vasey loses out on four
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• The registrations of two local services operated by Thomas Vasey, trading as Vasey's Coaches, of Ashington, have been cancelled by North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Brian Horner, and its vehicle authorisation has been cut from 10 to six.
At disciplinary proceedings in Newcastle, Vasey admitted failing to run registered journeys on a service between Ponteland and Newcastle, and between Newcastle and the New
biggin Hall Estate.
He said that the latter service had been designed to run in between Busways Travel Services timings on the route. But as soon as the service started, said Vasey, Busways introduced duplicates which ran immediately in front of his service, and he had been "frozen out" of the Eldon Square Bus Station on innumerable occasions, being unable to get on the stand.
Similarly, the introduction of the Ponteland service provoked competition from other operators. Busways operated two or three minutes ahead of his service, and had recently extended 25km (16 miles) back towards Otterburn on a route he covered, so the whole thing became uneconomic.
The situation was aggravated by illness affecting him and his transport manager and driver shortages. The Newcastle/ Newbiggin Estate service had last operated at the end of July, when a driver was taken off the road by his doctor after an incident in the bus station with a Busways driver.
Horner said he was satisfiec Vasey had not really beer organised for the expansior that followed deregulation.