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Higher Fares No Cure for Losses

23rd September 1949
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

THAT it was wrong for transport I undertakings to regard increases in fares as the only way to avoid deficits was an opinion stated last week by

Court. S. Blanche, convener of Glasgow Transport Committee, at a dinner kiven by the committee to the managers' branch of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association. A policy of increasing charges was following the Government's lead in making taxation heavier.

Consideration should first be given to capital payments and expenditure, particularly at a time when the Govern • rnent had made it impossible to raise loans by any method other than through the Public Works Loan Board and was laying down conditions that were contrary to Acts of Parliament. He suggested that transport undertakings should continue existing loans, and see whether they could keep their vehicles and plant running without too much capital expenditure.

If undertakings 1-1,9d to spend capital they should examine how much they could afford on the revenue they had and plan projects accordingly. If that point were watched carefully there would be less difficulty in balancing accounts.

Coun. E. Greenhill, referring to the nationalization of transport, said that it would be bad policy if the actual administration of transport undertakings were taken away from those who had life-long and intimate experience of their own areas. Those people who were accustomed to work the undertakings successfully should be left to carry on, and those laymen who had been accustomed to reflect the desires of the public should not be excluded from determining the future of transport undertakings.

This point was further expanded by Mr. E. R. L. Fitzpayne, general manager of Glasgow Transport Department, who suggested that, under nationalization, Glasgow should have its own district executive.


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