BUS SERVICES IN LEICESTERSHIRE.
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The Comprehensive Nature of Existing Services Responsible for the Refusal of a Request for Further Facilities.
TN few parts of the East Midlands 1 have motorbus developments proceeded at a greater rate in recent years than in Leicestershire with the county town and Loughborough as the principal eentres. The suggestion involved in relation to a recent application is, however, that. in certain areas of the hunting shire the facilities afforded for this type of road traffic are becoming overelaborated. A firm of Leicester bus proprietors had applied to the health committee of the Loughborough Corporation for permission to run 12 additional omnibuses between the two towns, but the committee, being of opinion that the present services are sufficient for the needs of the public, refused to accede to the request.
At a recent meeting of the town council, when the matter was reported upon, Mr. MeGhie expressed the view, however, that the corporation should afford every encouragement for increasing transport arrangements, as the facilities afforded could not be too great. He emphasized his view as to the proper
attitude to be adopted in regard to the matter by saying that if the railway companies running into Loughborough decided to put on more trains they would not think of objecting to their action.
Mr. B. W. Dawson, speaking on behalf of the committee, said that, in its view, there was already a sufficient number of buses running between Leicester and Loughborough. It might be a question of monopoly. If it was a matter of the bigger companies squeezing out the little firms, he felt that they would all give the little man a chance.
Aldermau A. Armstrong explained that the reason why the committee felt it could not allow another 12 buses to be ran was the difficulty of getting them
on the stand. If the proposal was adopted there would be two buses on the stand at the same time. On Saturdays the buses occupied the stand 300 times. They did not go away loaded every time and those who missed one bus had very few minutes to wait for another. The action of the committee was endorsed.