"Feud Between Council and North Western ', T HE battle between Stockport
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Corporation and the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., to decide who should provide the stage services to the corporation's new housing estate at Brinnington (The Commercial Motor, August 3, November 23 and December 14, 19561 ended at Manchester last week. The North Western Traffic Commissioners granted a joint application for the new service between Stockport and Brinnington.
The original hearings ended in stalemate, when North Western appealed against a grant to the corporation of consent to run. The Commissioners decided at that time to delay licence grants because they thought it would be in the public interest for the service to be joint or co-ordinated.
Mr. John Green for the company, said peace terms had been agreed and they were seeking permission to licence all the duplicate journeys and put them in a substantive time-table. " Shorts " at present run on North Western's Stockport-Denton service would be withdrawn and transferred to the Brinnington licence.
Agreement had been reached to run jointly on a 50-50 basis, and the company had withdrawn their appeal. Stockport concessionary fares would apply, and the id. per passenger protection afforded the corporation on this route had been abolished. The company's Stockport-Denton service would remain separate.
Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said the dispute arose from a long-standing feud between the company and the corporation, going back to 1954. At the end of the pitched battle in 1956 the Commissioners made certain suggestions which they were glad had been accepted.
JUSTIFICATION FOR URBAN MOTOR WAYS
A. MOST ambitious and timely book has been published this week by the British Road Federation dealing in detail with urban motorways as the solution of traffic congestion.
The International conference of experts on urban motorways which met last year in London became known as the "Highways U.N.O.," and this publication serves as the Hansard and manifesto of that conference.
The five papers on the need, planning, design, cost and benefits of urban highways are printed in full, as well as detailed answers to pertinent
questions by delegates during. discussion.
Texts of the papers are authoritative enough to serve as works of reference for transport operators; the many illustrations, diagrams and statistics will stimulate the highway engineer; the questions and answers will anticipate the arguments of those in local government whose responsibility it is to provide a modern road system.
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