Company Refused Feeder Service
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DIBBLE MOTOR SERVICES, LTD., IX were refused a new picking-up point near the Corporation car park, Heysham, at a Blackpool hearing before the North Western Traffic Commissioners last week.
Mr. G. Dawes, the company's traffic assistant, submitted a schedule showing population changes in the various wards of Morecambe and Heysham. In the past few years there had been much building and development in the area and the population had risen.
Ribble wished to operate a feeder service from Morecambe to Heysham, and back, picking up passengers for excursion coaches.
Mr. H. Backhouse, objecting for the Association of Morecambe Coach Opera tors, supported a system whereby one feeder coach should be sent to Heysham to bring back passengers for all operators. The Morecambe operators wished to run into Heysham and did not think that one company should have a new independent point.
Mr. Dawes agreed that it was a good idea to have a point common to all operators, but permission had first to be granted for the point to be used. Ribble had had negotiations with the Morecambe operators in the past, but no conclusion had been arrived at. If necessary, they would be willing to have further discussions in order to reach an agreement.
\The chairman, Mr. F. Williamson, said that no case had been made out and refused the application.