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Restrictive Conditions
QUGGESTIONS that the North N-) Western and Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners' decisions to prohibit advertising of through services to Llandudno, when renewing the licences of the Tyne-Tees-Mersey Pool opera tors, are, in effect, an ingenious way of restricting express linking seem hardly borne out by the facts.
The Minister of Transport has stated that, in his view, it is highly desirable that intentions to link should be disclosed when applications are made, but has given no clear directive that it should be done.
The North Western Traffic Commissioners, satisfied that unlicensed linking is bad, have for some time been trying to bring the whole question into the open, with the object of keeping it under proper control.
In the case in question, an application to renew the licences without modification was made, and only at a later stage was notification given that it was intended to seek the addition of a 6.30 a.m. journey to the public timetable, and to link at Manchester for Llandudno, an unofficial practice that had been going on for many years.
Consequently this part a the application was treated by the Commissioners as a modification of the licence, which, under Regulation 42 of the Public Service Vehicles (Licences and Certificates) Regulations, 1952, need not be published in Noticesand Proceedings. It also allows the Commissioners to attach such conditions as they sec fit without notice.
So far as express linking is concerned, the prohibition on advertising of through services, even if extended, would in no way impose control or act as a ban on present practices.