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Details of the Report Which the Tramways Committee Has Placed Before Glasgow Corporation.
MHE tramways committee of Glas gow Corporation has recommended the corporation to make application to Parliament for a complete monopoly of the road transport of passenger traffic within the city and on existing tramway routes outside the city (as well as on routes in competition therewith), so long as the corporation provides an adequate and satisfactory service, by means of either tramways or buses or the two forms of transport operating together.
The committee also recommends the corporation to secure power to abandon, if and when, it so desires, any of the tramway routes, replacing them by motorbus services.
The existing powers only enable the corporation to supplement the present tramway services by means of buses, and do not confer any monopoly.
in the report of the town clerk and tramways manager on the subject, attention is drawn to the considerable number of Acts and Orders passed in the period since the end of the war, and, in particular, to three Acts passed during 1928, authorizing the abandonment of tramways and the substitution of buses, these powers being coupled with provisions restricting competition. The three Acts referred to relate to Greenock, Nottingham and Derbyshire, and Perth, and the restrictive provision in each is to the effect that, so long as the existing traffic authority provides an adequate and satisfactory service of
competition with the -services in question.
Reference is also made in the report to the many Bills and Provisional Orders which were deposited in the.last session of Parliament by both local authorities and companies seeking powers to abandon tramways and to substitute buses or trolley vehicles.