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Excursion Routes to be Defined?
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\y/HEN J. Wearden and Sons, Ltd., VV Blackburn, applied to the North Western Traffic Commissioners at Manchester last week -to introduce a picking-up point in Brownhill fortheir excursions, it was submitted on behalf of BlackburnCorporation, Who objected, that unless picking-up points were confined to line-of-route excursions, an. operator could not run his other excursions via those points without contravening the authorized route.
Mr. H. Backhouse, for the company, said that this was a novel view. It had generally been accepted that an operator could perambulate at will . his authorized points in the district of origin, subject to arrangements concerning congestion and so on. It had never been required that routes between picking-up points should be defined on licences.
A representative of the corporation said that their objections would be met if the point were restricted to line-ofroute excursions, but Mr. Backhouse was not prepared to accept. this suggestion.
Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said that no licence in the area had routes between picking-up points precisely defined.The corporation's point was important and if it were persisted with, the Commissioners would have to con, sider it serionsly, because other opera
tors would be affected. • They proposed to grant the pickingup point to apply to all excursions, with a proviso that the route should be agreed between the company and the police. This arrangement was temporary, pending settlement of the issues raised by the town clerk, said Mr.