Lincoln Bus Loss Will be £10,000
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1E loss on Lincoln Transport )epartment at the end of the present lcial year will probably be about 000—not £14,000, as originally esti:d. This news was given to the City ncil by Aid. F. W. G. Todd, chair
of the transport committee, when .eported that up to January 11 an a 390,000 passengers had been carried pared with last year. This meant tional revenue of £6,440.
But we have been in a sorry state several years, constantly losing ley, and this year will, unfortunately, io exception," he said. " However, in pleased to be able to say that :ad of the estimated loss of £14,000, , the addition of about £3,000 in es, making a possible £17,000 loss, shall now lose only £10,000."
e referred to the increase in .engers as "a happy trend" which the result of a great deal of patient k. But still more traffic could be ied — 19m. people used Lincoln :s in the peak year of 1952, whereas year the figure was down to 15m.
If we can only get a million back can level the budget, and that is our nvour," said Aid. Todd. " Alteras we are hoping to make during the • two months will give a better' uency every day of the week Iughout the city, which will help to ease the number of passengers."
TRUNK ROAD PROGRESSES ODERN1ZAT1ON of the StaffordStoke trunk road will soon be mced a stage further. Dual carriages have already been constructed over • miles of the road, and now work is egin on another section miles long, ing £196,000.
treams of traffic will divide at laston so that northbound vehicles s the River Trent by the old bridge ist traffic heading south uses a new .span bridge. The project should be pleted by summer, 1960.