LIVERPOOL EXPECTS £85,000 DEFICIT ON BUSES.
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IT is estimated that, during the year ending March 31 next, there will be a deficit on Liverpool Corporation's bus working of £84,545, and a surplus on the trams of £119.448, giving a probable joint balance of £34,903. Nevertheless, reserve, renewal and depreciation accounts will absorb £67,000, so that the deficit on the whole undertaking for the year will be £32,097.
Last Friday the transport committee decided to recommend the city council to remove all buses running on Liverpool routes in competition with the trains.
CONCESSION FARES REFUSED.
THE Metropolitan Traffic Commis sioner has refused an application by Messrs. James Pearson and Sons, to operate a special service, at reduced fares, for the transport of crews of Cunard liners from Liverpool to London. The existing fares are 15s. single and 27s. 6d. return, and the proposed rates were 12s. 6d. single and 20s. return. The railway companies have, for many years, allowed special concessions to seamen, the Liverpool-London fares being 18s. 7d. single and 33s. return.
Mr. Gleeson Robinson' the Commissioner, remarked that Messrs. Pearson had been running these special services since 1929 without a licence, in the belief that it was private-hire work, but they now desired to regularize their position. Opposition was provided by the railway companies and by other coach operators.
Mr. Gleeson Robinson said that, if the application were granted, other operators would doubtless wish to be given a similar concession, and the system might be unreasonably extended. He was satisfied that the railway facilities were adequate.
COL. REDMAN'S WARNING.
THE chairman of the West Midland Traffic Commissioners, Col. A. S. Redman, said, last week, that, now fares for excursions and tours were on a uniform basis, it was expected that conditions of work for employees would also be standardized.
Referring to brake squeal, Col. Redman said that, unless the nuisance is cured, they will have to ask the Minister of Transport to make a regulation to deal with the matter.
CLEAN CLOTHES CREATE PROBLEM FOR BUS OWNERS.
A NEW problem has been created for
bus owners in South Wales by the recent opening of pit-head baths for colliers. Men in working clothes received special concession fares, but now they journey to and from work in clean clothes, bathing and changing at pitheads. The problem is to distinguish between bona-fide colliers travelling to and from work and those making ordinary journeys.
It is complained that colliers wearing clean clothes—able to travel by ordinary buses—have been refused reduced rates.
DERBY STATION PLAN.
THERE is a proposal afoot in Derby to establish a new central bus station in the Morledge. Opposition from a certain section of tradesmen has been shown to the transfer of the Cheapside and Bold Lane bus station to the Morledge.