Services to go ahead
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• iwo local authorities have tailed in their attempts to block new bus services by using the limited objection powers of the 1985 Transport Act, but two other council objections are still to be considered.
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council tried to stop A Mayne and Sons' plans to extend its ManchesterHartshead service to Oldham on the double grounds that it would interfere with the transition to deregulation and would cause traffic problems.
Transition to deregulation was the basis of Clywd County Council's attempt to stop Goldstar Line of North Wales from running a summer service from Pensarn railway station to Prestatyn.
North-Western Traffic Commissioner Roy Hutchings ruled that the Mayne service would have little effect on existing traffic problems, especially as it runs only once per hour. A more frequent service might have been viewed differently.
Hutchings authorised the Goldstar service, saying that the company's undertaking to take over without subsidy any Crosville (National Bus) services withdrawn as a result of its service starting meant that it would not disrupt the transition to deregulation.
Clwyd and Crosville claimed that the Goldstar service would cost Crosville 221,000 and would imperil four of the NBC company's services.
Alpine Travel has also applied for a new Conwy-Colwyn Bay service every hour. Both Clwyd and Gwynedd County Councils have opposed it on grounds that it would harm the transition to deregulation.
Gwynedd public transport co-ordinator Robert Saxby told Hutchings that there is no room for anything extra which would disrupt staff from their programmed tasks.
The company has registered to run the services from October, but wants to start them now, hut does not want to take over any Crosville routes without receiving council support.
Hutchings has reserved his decision on those cases.