New Regulations for Trolleybuses
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THE Minister of Transport told the House of Commons, on Monday, that new regulations governing the speed oftrolkybuses would be made as soon as possible. He stated thathis department was preparing a revised model code of safety provisions for trolleybuses, which will form the basis of new regulations for a number of undertakings.
Consultations • on the code were taking place, and the new regulations would incorporate existing speed limits, from 5 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h. on certain stretches of road, and would impose a 30-m.p.h. limit outside these areas.
LONDONERS NOT BEING OVERCHARGED
" THE London passenger is not being overcharged in order that relief may be given to other passengers elsewhere in the country." The British Transport Commission stresses this point in a statement issued last week about London Transport fares.
It continues: The Londoner is being asked to pay no more than the costs of the services he uses. During 1951, he paid less than the cost. Even with the present increase, London Transport fares will be only 74 per cent, above pre-war, while costs levels have gone up much more than double."
It is also emphasized in the statement that London congestion 'slows down traffic, and that operating costs rise accordingly. If it took over a year to obtain an increase in fares, then obviously in times of rapidly rising expenses charges must move up in fairly large bounds. An actual loss in 1951 of not less than £2m. was incurred on the operation of London Transport's road services, said Lord Hurcomb, chairman of the British Transport Commission, in a letter to "The Times" last week, The Central Transport Consultative Committee met in private last week to consider London fare problems arising from a-large number of representations.