New Fares Structure for S.M.T. Group ?'
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nETAILS of the proposed new fares
structure of the Scottish Motor Traction group of companies were given in Edinburgh recently by the chairman of the group, Mr. James Amos. Subject to approval by the Scottish Licensing Authority, single fares would, he said, be introduced at the rate of Id. per mile, return fares at 0.875d. per mile, and workers' tickets would be put on a uniform scale in line with the proposed single fares.
At present, single-fare charges varied from Id. per mile to as much as Ifd. per mile in certain rural districts: The Id. fare would not be abolished, said Mr. Amos, who added that the proposals represented an overall increase in fares of 5-20 per cent.
"We regard this as being the absolute minimum to produce the revenue necessary to compensate for the very numerous "increases in costs," he commented. If the group's application were granted, one month would elapse between the authorization and its putting into effect.
Mr. Amos stated that increases in fares were inevitable. There was no common structure of minimum fares and many communities were subsidizing others. He said that the proposals to raise fares would have been taken, whether or not control of the group had passed to the Bnitish Transport Commission.
Glasgow and Edinburgh Transport Departments have also applied to the Scottish Licensing Authority for permission to raise fares.
BUS MERGER APPROVED
THE scheme for merging the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd., Wakefield, and J. Bullock and Sons (1928), Ltd., Featherstone, progressed last week, when the Yorkshire Licensing Authority granted the West Riding company's unopposed application for licences to take over Bullock's 76 stagecarriage services, 12 express services, and its excursions and tours operated from six points.
MR. MORRISON'S BLESSING
ON Tuesday Mr. Herbert Morrison officially " launched " four London Transport buses on a 4,000-mile tour of Europe. Representatives of the countries through which the buses will travel, giving exhibitions advertising the Festival 'of Britain, were present at the ceremony.