Bleeps for Lee ds Inspectors
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I N order to maintain a closer contact between the control room and inspectors at strategic points in the city, Leeds City transport department has equipped 10 inspectors with bleeps. The control room has experienced difficulty in the past in contacting inspectors when the traffic is heavy, as they have been unable to hear the telephone. The bleep is a pocket radio receiver which, in the case of the Leeds inspectors, will emit a quiet bleep under normal conditions (or a louder bleep if traffic is noisy) when the inspector is required. In the case of an emergency, a series of rapid bleeps will be emitted.
Leeds is also equipping 12 buses with radio telephones, as an experiment to improve the flow of information about
traffic conditions in different parts of the city. Buses so equipped win be allocated to strategic routes or routes passing through strategic areas. Leeds has many long, cross-city routes, and a hold-up on one side of the city could have farreaching effects. The first bus, with radio telephone, carried members of the transport committee on their annual inspection on Monday, and all 12 will be equipped in the next few months. The experiment is for a five-year period.
Music While You Ride: Ribble Motor Services Ltd. began experiments last week with taped music as a background to travel on their 49-seat express coaches on the PrestonCarlisle run. Passengers were handed questionnaires to discover whether they favoured the idea, and, if so, what kind of music was preferred.