Operating Aspects of PASSENGER
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TRANSPORT
STUPENDOUS TRAFFIC FIGURES IN LONDON TRANSPORT'S REPORT
THE introduction to the report of the London Passenger Transport Board for the year ended June 30, 1939, emphasizes that the year was an unfortunate one for the Board. The rate of growth of traffic continued to decline, whilst operating expenses continued to grow.
The number of passengers whose journeys originated on the Board's system totalled 3,782,097,853 in the year under review, coaches and buses being responsible for 2,222,695,228, and• the trolleybuses 570,604,622. The coach and bus return represents 59 per cent., and the trolleybus figure 15 per cent, of the total; the latter shows an increase of 50 per cent. on the previous year.
It is estimated that the Board's railways were used by a further 90,000,000 passengers, whose journeys originated on other systems. The aggregate number of passengers represents travel at the rate of 444 journeys per annum per head of the population served, which is estimated at 9,850,000. The Board's total traffic receipts, after the operation of the pooling scheme amounted to £31,089,753, the average receipt per journey for all passengers covered by the pooling scheme being 2.332d.
The number of miles run by the Board's vehicles was 573,359,248—an increase of 6,329,378 over the previous year. Trolleybuses were responsible for about half of the increased mileage.
During the year under review, 39 ronte miles of tramways were converted to trolleybus operation, and altogether 191 miles of tramway have been converted in this manner. The mileage of trolleybus routes authorized, but not yet opened for traffic, is 126.
The coaches and buses of the Board operate over a route mileage of 2,513. At the end of June last, the Board owned 6,389 coaches and buses and 1,411 trolleybuses, The service miles run by the vehicles in the period was 286,710,558 for coaches and buses and 55,273,635 for trolleybuses.