Concession Bills for Two Towns: More Fares to Rise ?
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A TO meeting last week , approved unanimously the promotion of a Bill by West Bromwich Town Council which would give the corporation powers to grant free or concessionary travel on buses to men over 65, women over 60, and any other classes of persons. they thought fit. . It is estimated that the concessions would cost at least £5,000 a year.•
At a meeting at which proposals for higher fares were approved, Walsall Town Council also decided to go ahead with plans for a Bill to legalize concession travel for old people. The maximum cost of the concessions was stated to be £45,000 a year. The suggested fare increases are designed to.bring in an extra £82,000 a year.
Extra E150,000 Coventry City Council are to be asked at their next meeting on January 3 to approve fare revision.; designed to increase revenue by £150,000 a year. They will also be requested to sanction payment of an additional 9s. 10d. a week in the bonus paid to employees. 1 his now stands at 15s. 7d.
An application for an extra £80.000 a year is to be made to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority by Bradford Transport Department.
Blackpool Transport Committee last week recommended the abolition of workers' and pupils' fares and contracts to help to meet the extra £48,000 a year in costs represented by the recent pay award (The Cointnercid Motor, December 9). The recommendations would produce £25,000 a year.
Another Municipal undertaking likely to apply for higher fares is that at Warrington, w here the pay rise is estimated to cost £14.000 a year.
The joint transport .committee representing Bristol Corporation and Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., last week recommended increases to meet the £220,000 rise in costs resulting from the pay award.
Edinburgh Transport Committee have approved higher fares designed to yield an extra £241.000 a year.
East Midland Motor Services. I,td., and the Birmingham and Midland Motor omnibus Co.. IA., have already submitted their applications for fare increases to the licensing Authorities.
North Staffs bus operators decided at a meeting in Stoke-on-Trent on Monday to apply to the West Midland Licensing Authority for permission to raise fares. Prbposed. increases ra,nge from d. to 2c1: The abolition of some concession fares is also sought.
Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd., are to apply for fare increases on January 10..
ULSTER INCREASE: HIGH COURT CHALLENGE
iNCREASED charges for goods and 1 passenger transport by the Ulster Transport Authority and the Great Northern Railway sanctioned by the Northern Ireland Transport Tribunal (The Commercial Motor last week) may be postponed or abandoned. . Local authorities are challenging the Tribunal's decision in the High Court.
In their appeal' the ruling-put of evidence which some objectors wished to offer will be questioned, also the rejection of a proposal that there should be an investigation of the U.T.A.