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`Tracky' applies for record increase
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• The biggest application for an increase in fares in the history of the Yorkshire Traction Co Ltd has been made to the Yorkshire Traffic. Commissioners. This step is to meet what the company describes as "unprecedented increases in costs".
The proposals include a revised mileage scale, the issue of adult contract tickets to be restricted to monthly tickets, calculated as 44 times the single fare, less 10 per cent, and the withdrawal of apprentice tickets.
Facts which have emerged as reasons for the big increase in costs, are stated by the company to include the need to employ substantially more drivers because of the new hours regulations; increases in the basic rates of pay for drivers and conductors of £1 7s 2d and £1 6s 2d per week respectively; increases of £2 and £1 lOs a week for maintenance workers; and equal pay for women workers.
The company reports that consultants are now engaged in its maintenance workshops; more o-m-ci buses, both singleand double-deck, are proposed; and there will have to be substantial cuts in many unremunerative services, especially outside peak hours and at weekends. It recognizes, however, the need to join in the revitalization process in the South Yorkshire coalfield area.
With the introduction of decimal fares there will, if anything, be slight reductions for some stages, despite the cost of conversion.
The rises, if granted, would provide extra bus revenue amounting to £470,567 in a full year.