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Aspects of
PASSENGER TRANSPORT
2,000 MORE BUSES FOR LONDON
By arrangement with the Ministry of Transport, bins undertakings operating in Scotland, the provinces and
other places outside the London area are lending up to 2,000 buses to London Transport to help workers to travel more speedily to and from their jobs. They are being manned by the Board's drivers and conductors.
The first of these buses, from Hali fax, were placed in service on October
23 on Route 11 (Liverpool Street and Shepherd's Bush) and Route 25C (Forest Gate and Victoria) in time for the evening peak period.
In connection with this development
London Transport .invites applications from men and women to serve as con
ductors. Male conductors 'must be aged between 37 and 50 years and women between 21 and 40 years. Successful applicants will be-required to undergo a brief period of training, during which men will receive a subsist -ence allowance of 5s. a day and women 4s. 6d. a day.
After training the rates of pay for • a 48-hour week are :—Men: Central buses £4 5s. including war wage, rising to £4 1 1s; trams and trolleybuses, £4 2s., including war wage, rising to 24 11s. Women : Trams and trolleybuses, 23 13s. 10d., including war wage, rising to 24 1.1s.; Central buses, £3 16s. 6d., rising to 24 us. For Sunday work the pay is at the rate of time and a quarter.
CIVIL SERVANTS ARE NOT WORKMEN
CIVIL servants receiving over 23 a N.--• week are not to have the privilege of workmen's fates on Blackpool's buses and trams. This is the latest decision of the town's-transport committee. Mr. W. Luff, th -transport manager, states that there are 1,500 certificates in use for workers, entitling 'them to travel at half rates. These certificates will now be available only for those earning up to 23 a week.
EXPRESS BUSES ON 10 LONDON ROUTES
ON October 22, rondon Transport announced two new war measures to, assist passengers to travel more quickly to and froth work. On the following day the coaches on four Green Line routes started to run into London and back again to their outer terminals, instead of running through Central London. The object of dividing the routes in this way is to make, more regular running possible. The routes are Al (Ascot and Gravesend); A2 (Sunningdale and Gravesend) ; C (Chertsey and Tunbridge Wells) ; H
(Luton and East Grinstead). • Each route, in effect, becomes two routes, and the London terminus in each case is Eccleston Bridge, Victoria.
Beginning on October 24, between the hours of 7.15 and 9 a.m., and 4 and 6 p.m., a number of buses on 10 busy routes started to run to express schedules between the inner suburbs and selected points in Central London. The object is to provide buses, for long-distance passengers, approximately every 10 minutes into London in the morning and out at night on each route. The buses run express over the inner sections of the routes, stopping at only one or two intermediate points where many passengers are normally picked up or set down. The scheme is experimental and may be reviewed in the light of experience.
PARCELS ON NOTTINGHAM BUSES
PARCELS will be carried on Nottingham's trolleybuses and monarbuses in the course of the next few weeks. The Regional Transport Commissioner has approved the city transport committee's scheme. An announcement may be expected shortly.
CHARGED FOR NOT STOPPING BUSES CLOSE TO KERBS
AT Stirling Police Court recently, when four bus drivers were charged with having failed,' in Stirling, to stop their buses "as close as may be " to the near-side kerb, Judge Aitken repelled two objections to the charge made by an agent representing the drivers.
The agent expressed the view that the interim burgh prosecutor was not entitled to bring such a charge before ' the court, and that the modus of the
• offence was lacking in specification. He explained that bus employers felt they were being harassed a good deal in regard to street congestionat a time when drivers had to contend with many difficulties connected with the national emergency.
Judge Aitken remarked that he had . every sympathy for the drivers and he knew their many difficulties, but the public had also to be protected.
Tendering a. plea of not guilty on behalf of the drivers, the agent said that negotiations were taking place regarding the erection of a bus station in Stirling. Should these reach a speedy and satisfactory conclusion the case might go no farther.
The trial was fixed for November 15. GAS-BUS SUCCESS AT BURNLEY THE gas-driven bus with which Burnley. Colne and Nelson Joint Transport undertaking has experimented has proved so successful that the scheme is to be extended. Mr. H. Broughton, the transport manager, has been authorized to 'equip seven additional single-deck buses, all now operating in the Burnley borough, on
.this. system. It is not considered practicable to convert double-deck buses.