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THE Southern Scotland Traffic Cornmissioners are prepared to hear representations by associations claiming to represent the pUblic on the subject of road safety, announced Mr. A. Henderson, the chairman, at a sitting in Glasgow. He said that the Commissioners had recently been approached by authorized societies, including the Pedestrians Association: asking_ for careful examination of time-tables, with the object of securing greater road safety.
" We generally agreed on a broad difference between urban, semi-urban and rural routes," remarked Mr. Henderson. "We have invited trade unions catering for drivers to -make representations when their members— the actual drivers on these routes— have reason to believe that the speed at which they are compelled to travel, in order to keep to the time-table, is unreasonable. We haVe had consulta.
tions with operators, in oonsequence of suggestions by the unions, and we are prepared to listen to representations and to invite the views of any association that claims to speak with authority for the public or any part of it.'
YORKSHIRE APPEAL PAILS.
TIIE Minister of Transport has dismissed, with costs, the appeal ot Mr. Samuel Ledgard, of Leeds, against the condition imposed by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners .regarding services to football matehes. The condition requires that Mr. Ledgard and other operators should advise Leeds Corporation, by 10 a.m. on the day on which the services are to be run, of the total number of vehicles to be used.
MANCHESTER EXPECTS BETTER TIMES FOR BUSES.
THE finance committee of Mancinester Corporation states that the estimates of the tranSport committee show that the income is anticipated to amount to £2,296,200, an increase of £89,000 on the -figure for 1934-35. The income from motorbuses showf, an increase of £208,100, whilst there is a decline in that from the tramways of £118,200. The expenditure for next year is expected to be £2,157,800, or
£66,000 more than for the current financial year. The expenditure for motorbuses is increased by £158,300, whilst that on the tramways is decreased by £92,300, As a result, the amounts to be transferred to the appropriation account are as follow :—From the tramways, £56,100, and from the buses £82,300, a total of £138,400, as against £114,500 for 1934-35. A net sum of £100,150 is expected to be available for transference to the renewals fund, as compared with £84,300 for the current year.
PROTECTION AGREEMENT REACHED.
AFTFR several months of negotiation, an agreement has been reached between United Automobile Services, Ltd., and Darlington Corporation for the protection of the corporation's trolleybas services. The " United" has agreed to a protective fare and not to introduce contract tickets entitling the holders to be picked up or set down within the borough. In addition, the United company has consented to
apply these terms on any other route which may, in the future, be operated by troileybuses.
LONDON CONCERN'S BIG CAPITAL INCREASE. THE capital of Messrs. New Empress I City Saloons, London, N.W.5, has been increased by 50.000 £1 ordinary shares to £66,500, the 50,000 shares having been allotted to the City Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd.
SUB-COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE HULL FINANCES.
AS reported in last week's issue, Hull City Council decided not to hold an independent inquiry into the finances of the transport department, but the transport committee has now agreed to form a sub-committee to make an inquiry, in the hope of setting the undertaking on a sounder financial basis.
FARES PROPOSALS APPROVED
T"proposals for the expediting of variations of fares, which were made by a meeting of coach operators towards the end of last year, have, in general, been approved by No..5 Regional Committee on Fares. It has been decided that the committee should hold a minimum of two fixed meetings per year, one being in June and the other in February, whilst the Central Committee should meet. within 14 days of the last of the Regional Committee meetings.
• The proposals in connection with emergency meetings were also approved, and it was decided that details. of the business to be discussed should. be circulated 14 days in advance of each emergency meeting.. The suggestion of the Motor Hirers and Coach_ Services Association regarding the cost of meetings was accepted.
It was unanimously decided that the Traffic. Commissioners should be asked by the Central Committee to recognize the Regional Committees and their recommendations. The railway • representatives agreed that the resolution was reasonable and should assist in the fulfilment of the functions for which the committees were set up.:
After a lengthy discussion. -on the subject of cheap day-return fares, it was ultimately decided that operators should have facilities for issuing regular reduced day-return fares on their express services and/or for special events. Particulars of the latter should, in the committee's opinion, be dispatched to he Traffic Commissioners a month in advance. •
EMERGENCY MEETING ON • WAGES?
ALAST-MINUTE conference is expected to be called between officials of the Transport and General Workers Union and representatives of • the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and its subsidiary companies, before the present agreement expires next March. The union would be prepared to accept the present working conditions for another 12 months, dating from February, instead of June, as the company requests, provided that the concern considers the readjustment of wages.