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Concessionary fares withdrawn
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• Twenty-two local authorities who appealed against the joint decisions of the North Western and East Midland Traffic Commissioners to authorize the withdrawal of school children's concessionary fares, have had the appeal refused.
The Commissioners had granted variations to the licences held by the North Western Road Car Co Ltd so that it could withdraw the concessionary fares half adult rate—enjoyed by children aged 15 or 16 when travelling to and from school. The company's ordinary concessionary fares (half-fare for all travel up to 15th birthday) were not affected. New contract tickets with no upper age limit for school children had been introduced, but it was claimed that they only represented a relatively small reduction for those affected by the withdrawal.
Miss B. J. de Livera, an Assistant
Secretary to the Minister of Transport, says in a written decision that the Minister, Mr F. Mulley, felt the increase would need to be obtained elsewhere had he upheld the appeal. "It must always be a matter of some difficulty to determine, the fairest means of distributing the burden of a necessary fares increase," says Miss de Livera.
It had been claimed, notes Miss de Livera, that increases in non-stage service costs were being wrongly passed on to the stage services and that the increased bus fuel grant for stage services was being used to subsidize non-stage services. "The Minister considers it important to show that the bus fuel grant explicitly benefits the stage services for which it was solely intended and that stage services are not required to meet the costs attributable to increases in fuel duty for non-stage buses."