MERSEY TUNNEL SERVICE APPEAL S HOULD stage, as well as express, services be operated through Mersey
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Tunnel? This was the question at issue in the appeal, heard last Friday, of Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., against the North-Western Commissionefs' refusal to license a stage service from Mold to Loggerheads and Liverpool, via the tunnel.
For the company, it was stated that the Commissioners had, from the opening of the tunnel, licensed excursion services through it. If the application had been for an express service, there would apparently have been no objection.
For some of the objectors, it was pointed out that the Crosville company expected to lose £26,800 on the service in the first year. Important developments in transport control on Merseyside were coming, and it would be necessary to consider the recasting of the basis of transport in the district. The company was endeavouring, it was alleged, to stake a claim--and lose money in the process—as the first stage
service operator through the tunnel, and gain preferential treatment.
This charge was denied. The company had no objection to co-ordination, but the scheme was nebulous.
PROTECTION TO GO.
PROTECTIVE fares on Nottingham Corporation's buses will be abolished when the tram service is finally eliminated.
Present anticipations are that the list of Nottingham's trams—those on the Arnold route—will disappear during next May, and then, it is stated, the passenger transport committee will be able to reach final decisions on fares revisions.
SIR J. MAXWELL OPENS STATION.
ERECTED at a cot of £5,000, a new Lai municipal bus station at Consett (Co. Durham) has been opened by Sir John Maxwell, chairman of the Northern Traffic Commissioners. Sir John, performing the ceremony, said that it was the first municipal station to he built in north-west Durham. The scheme was first mooted 15 years ago, but had invariably been held up.