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Let Bus Companies Apportion Fares Increases, Says Minister

1st June 1962, Page 49
1st June 1962
Page 49
Page 49, 1st June 1962 — Let Bus Companies Apportion Fares Increases, Says Minister
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I N a written decision the Minister of Transport has rejected, with costs, the appeal by Buckinghamshire County Council and Oxford City Council against fares increases granted to the City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd., by the East Midland and the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners, The Minister considers that the application was not—as had been suggested—excessive and that the company "while naturally remembering their commercial self-interest, had been painstakingly fair and objective." The company's proposals for spreading the burden of the increases between town and country were more equitable than the proposals of the appellants. Commenting on a suggestion that the Commissioners had wrongly left the apportionment of the increases to the discretion of the company, the Minister states that it seems to 'him that the apportionment between, say, town and country must necessarily depend, at least in the initial stages of .framing an application. on the commercial judgment and discretion of a company and that the company's view on this should thereafter be given due weight„ It would be for the Traffic Commissioners to decide whether to alter the.apporticinment if the evidence led them to believe that certain aspects of an application were considered to be unreasonable.