ONE BUS FOR TWO SERVICES
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PROPOSALS by Rotherham Corporation, involving the use of one bus on two services, were challenged before the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, at Sheffield, by Messrs. A. and C. Wigmore, stage-carriage operators, of Dirmington, near Sheffield. The corporation sought pm-Mission to amend its time-table on the Dinningtun-Rotherham route, a part of which is served by Messrs. Wigmore.
Mr. F, G. Bibbings, for Messrs. Wigmore, brought oat in crossexamination the fact that, under the corporation's proposed time-table, there would be a standing time of one minute at the Dinnington terminal point against an interval of 40 minutes at Rotherham.
It was explained that, during this 40-minute interval, the bus would be taken off the Dinnington service and used for the operation of a shuttle service between Rotherham and another point, necessitating a 20-minute journey each way.
Mr. Bibbings commented that this meant there would be only one minute's standing time to cover the vehicle's operation on both the Dinnington and the shuttle service. He submitted that this arrangement was extremely undesirable.
The application was granted.
HIGH COURT DECISION UPSETS STATION PLAN.
THE scheme for the provision of a central bus station in Townfield, Keighley, will have to be reviewed, following the dismissal by a King's Bench Divisional Court of an appeal put forward by Keighley Corporation against a decision by Keighley Borough Justices.
The effect of the dismissal is that the corporation cannot acquire compulsorily, as it had decided to do, two houses owned by Yorkshire Theatres, Ltd., which it required for the purpose of constructing the projected bus station.
NEW WEIGHT REGULATIONS.
UNDER the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness) (Amendment No. 3) Provisional Regulations, 1937, dated September 90, the maximum weight of a four-wheeled singledecker is now 9 tons; of a fourawheeled double-decker, 10i tons, andy of a vehicle with more than four wheels, 12i tons. The axle weight of a singledecker is 6 tons and of a double-decker 7 tons.
NOT CALLED IN FOUR YEARS.
AT last week's meeting of Hamilton Town Council, a complaint was made that Sir Henry Keith, the council's representative on the panel of Traffic Commissioners, had not once in four years Seen called to a sitting of the Commissioners.
Bailie Donald Orr moved that the authority make no nomination, but it was ultimately agreed to renominate Sir Henry Keith and to acquaint Mr: Duncan Graham, M.P. for Hamilton, with the position.
LABOUR OUT FOR BUSES.
TRANSPORT is one of the main 1 planks in the Labour Party's municipal-election campaign at Liverpool. In its programme, the party declares that Labour will reorganize the transport services on modern lines, and will advocate the gradual substitution of motorbuses or trolleybuses on all routes. Co-ordination of transport on Merseyside and the use of Mersey Tunnel by public transport services are recommended.