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Parking Costs L.T.E. £500,009 a Year
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FOR want of a general ban on street parking in inner London, which would make the bus services. better and cheaper to run, users of public transport services in London were being loaded with a cost, reflected in the level of their fares, of at least £500,000 a• year, said Mr. A: B. B. Valentine, a Member • of the British Transport Commission, speaking at the jubilee dinner of the Omnibus Society in London last Saturday.
In cities all over the world, he said, the bus was being increasingly prevented from giving a regular, reliable and speedy service mainly because of the parking. of other vehicles. It was essential that the bus should be allowed to do its job with maximum efficiency because it was by far the most economical user of street space per passenger transported.
Mr. James Amos, chairman of Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., referred to the display of passenger vehicles at Earls Court and Sir Brian Robertson's " sabre-rattling " remarks at the opening of the exhibition, implying that if industry could not produce what the British Transport Commission wanted, the B.T.C. would build their own. Mr. Amos felt confident that with the spur of competition the industry could always evolve fine vehicles, but, he added, it was "all wrong" for the price of a body to exceed that of a chassis.
Mr. John Birch, president of the Society, said that the industry was facing a major crisis caused by rising costs and stagnating revenues.
Mr. R. C. Moore, general manager of Sheffield Transport Department. stated that although the tram was dying hard in Sheffield, there was no doubt of the success of the transport system after tram abandonment.
Other speakers included Mr. R. W. Birch, chairman and managing director of the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and Mr. W. J. Crosland-Taylor, general manager of Crosville Motor Services. Ltd.
The dinner was preceded by a parade from Earls Court to Piccadilly of five vintage buses. They were a 1908 Daimler (a replica of the singledeckers with which Mr. T. A. Barton, Chilwell, Notts, started operation) and B-type, K-type, S-type and NS-type London double-deckers.