Big Rise in Miners' Fares Sought
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THE North Western Traffic Commis
sioners reserved decision at Chester, last week, when Mr. L. G. Phillips, Glyn Ceiriog, near Wrexham, applied for more than 100-per-cent. fare increases on a miners' service between Glyn Ceiriog and Mon Colliery. Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said they were negotiating with the National Coal Board with a view to the amounts paid by them to operators to be shown on the licences of all colliery services in the area.
Mr. Phillips, in evidence, said that present operating costs were is. 9d. a mile and stecipts Is. 6d. He had asked the Coal Board to increase the subsidy from S:27 to £36 a week, but had been told this could not be done unless he was granted a fare increase.
A sum of 5s. a week was deducted from the pay of miners using the service, and the Coal Board found the rest. There had been no rise in fares since 4950, and unless increases were granted the service would have to be withdrawn, he said.
Mr. Williamson said the proposed increases were substantial; Is. 6d. a mile was high for this type of service. He could not understand why the bulk of the increases were more than 100 per cent., yet the applicant was asking the Coal Board for an advance of only 33 per cent.
AREA C To BE SPLIT UP?
A PROPOSAL to split up Area C of I-1 the Municipal Passenger Transport Association will be considered at the Association's conference in September. Area C covers council bus undertakings in Lancashire, Cheshire, North Wales and Northern Ireland.