Multi-journey Fares Opposed

21st September 1962, Page 85

21st September 1962

Page 85

Page 85, 21st September 1962 — Multi-journey Fares Opposed

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I-16 A DECISION was reserved by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners at Leeds. last week, after they had resumed hearing an application by Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., Feather Bros. (Tours), Ltd., Wardways, Ltd,,, Robert Barr and Son. Ltd., J. W.. Kitchin and Sons, Ltd., and Hudsoris Coaches (Leeds), Ltd., to introduce certain special fares, The applica

tion was opened in June. •

The applicants., proposed . to issue passengers with five-journey tickets cogting £2 17s. 6d. if excursions commenced from Leeds, and £3 2s. 6th if they commenced from Bradford,, which could be used for destinationswhere the fare was not greater than 16s,• 9d. . The tickets would he available for travel by excursions and tours on any day other than Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Whit Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Christmas Day and. Boxing Day, all dates in August or during local holiday Weeks.

Exchange vouchers would be issued in the' form of a book Of stamps of varVing denominations, these being presented to the individual operators to obtain, travel tickets. Period tickets costing 16 guineas and valid from July 15 to October 31, or costing nine guineas and valid from March 1-July 14, would also be issued. These concessionary tickets were not to he used for race meetings or football matches.

Abstraction Feared Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., objected to the proposals. Mr. L. Waller, Ribble traffic manager, stated that they operated excursion services from Leeds and Bradford to Blackpool. and Morecambe, their present fares corresponding with those of Wallace Arnold. These carried an appreciable amount of traffic which might be abstracted if the public were able to travel more cheaply by buying voucher tickets. The application was a serious threat; .revenue from excursion services was essential to their economy.

Mr. F. D.Walker, for Ribble, described the aPplication as revolutionary and said that if it was granted other operators would have to lodge similar proposals through. necessity. At present Ribble vehicles served routes with regular services which were maintained on a basis of fixed fares. Existing fares were cheap and the new proposals were unsound and dangerous.

Mr.-R. Marshall, for the applicants, said that the whole of the excursions business would, benefit by their application. Operators in. the Yorkshire area had not objected and -Ribble did not have a great deal :ofinterest in the county. If the idea snread to another traffic area it could be taken care of then.

. Grant La.ter Revoked

I AXTON MOTOR SERVICES, of

Ardrossan, Ayrshire, had their licence revoked by the Scottish Licensing Authority in Glasgow on Friday. The L.A., Mr. W. Quin, said that it was clear that the Metropolitan Authority had refused a second vehicle for use in the London area. The firm then applied for and received a licence in the Scottish area.. It was granted in Chambers, but would not have been allowed if the full data had been known. It was clear that the applicant had no intention of operating the vehicle in Scotland and had merely used this method of getting round the Metropolitan refusal.