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"Eight Standing 99 to Remain T HE maximum number of standing

20th November 1953
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passengers permitted in buses is to remain at eight. The Minister of Transport has decided against a reduction. This information was given in the House of Commons last Friday.

It was tentatively proposed by the Minister earlier this year that the number should be reduced from eight to five, and the views of operators and the unions were invited. In meetings with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry, the unions strongly urged that there should be a return to the prewar practice of having a maximum of five standing.

The operators submitted that they could not provide the additional vehicles and staff that such a move would necessitate.

The Minister's written answer said that regulations would be framed to allow Up to eight standing passengers —or a third of the seasing capacity, if that were less—on a single-deck vehicle or the lower deck of a double-decker. He also proposed to permit experiments with crush-load vehicles to continue.

The present Standing Passengers Order is not to be replaced until he has received the Thesiger Report and he has studied any recommendation about the control of standing passengers in trolleybuses.

It is now expected that the proposal of both municipal and private employers to reduce employees' wages by 7s. 6d. a week if the number of standing passengers was reduced, will be withdrawn. The municipal claimwas submitted last week to the National Joint Industrial Council.


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