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Urban Transport Needs
DL'RING recent months, important developments in urban passenger-transport operation have been taking place in all parts of the country. In Yorkshire, which has always been in the forefront of transport progress, developments have been chiefly along the lines of improved coordination and tramways replacement.
A number of the schemes which have been carried out in the County of the l3road Acres will no doubt prove to be the forerunners of many similar plans.
Yorkshire municipalities were amongst the first to realize the value of co-ordination and, for some years, services in the Sheffield, Huddersfield, Halifax and Todmorden areas have been operated by joint committees consisting of representatives of the corporations and the railway companies. The Sheffield joint Committee's services, in particular, cover a large area of country, extending as far asHuddersfield, Leeds and Ga,insborough.
Recent co-ordination schemes entered into by municipalities have been mainly with private bus companies. Keighley-West Yorkshire Services, Ltd. (the joint venture of Keighley Corporation and the West Yorkshire Ca,), is by now well known, and has proved a successful undertaking.
Within the past year a similar scheme, but on rather different lines, has been commenced by the West Yorkshire company at York, where the local servicesare operated by a joint committee of the company and the corporation. As explained in our Special Passenger Vehicle Number dated February 8; the system consists of the former municipal undertaking and the West YorkShire Incal .servines.
At Leeds, the corporation and West RidingAutomobile Services, Ltd., have recently put into effect an interesting co-ordination scheme. The two operators' serVices. to theeastern districts of the city overlapped and, to some extent, competed, and the set-let-he recently, applied has succeeded in eliminating this state of affairs.
The West Riding company has handed over to the local authority the Leeds-Colton service, which runs holly within the city. The corporation has agreed to confine its services to the Green Lane route, leaving the parallel Selby Road route to the company. These two routes converge ' before again diverging at Halton and Whitkirk -Church, and contract and return tickets issued from these points by each undertaking have been made interchangeable. If this scheme works sa'tisfactorily, it is "anticipated that similar ones will be put into operation in ether parts of the city. A number of Leeds tramways routes has also been abandoned. About two years ago, the Rothwell ronte was discarded, at the same time as the West Riding company's Leeds-WakefieldSandal service.
This economy was made. possible by an agreement between the corporation and the company, whereby the former transferred the Rothwell service to the latter and the company left to the municipality all the in-city traffic from the Hunslet area. Since then, Leeds Corporation has successively replaced by bus services the tramways to Hyde Park (circular), Guiseley, Morley (Tingle)') and Bruntcliffe.
Another company-corporation joint scheme is that recently commenced at Hull between the local authority and East Yorkshire Motor ' Services, Ltd., whereby the latter's local services have been made available to city passengers.
Tramways abandonment is proceeding apace in Yorkshire. In addition to the schemes mentioned above, a number of routes has been dealt with by the corporations of Halifax, Bradford and Doncaster, whilst Keighley and Middlesbrough are now entirely free from trains.
A system recently dealt with is the Dearne Valley Light Railway, operated jointly; by a number of municipal authorities south-west of Barnsley. This route, although laid down after the war, has now, been replaced by a motorbus service operated by the Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., which has itself abandoned all its tramways.
Rotherham Corporation has now only one tramways service-that to Sheffield, jointly worked with Sheffield Corporation. The latter authority would not agree to its abandonment and Rotherham Corporation has accordingly obtained for it new tramcars, designed on bus lines,' with "an entrance at only one end. Rotherham Corporation's other routes, together. 'with the interwoven one of the Swin
ton andMexborough Traction Co., are . _ now operated by trolleybuses.
The Yorkshire transport companies have always realized the value of buses for town services and no companyoperated tramway-s remain in the county. The West Riding concern completed its replacement scheme over a year ago and, during the past few months, Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways, Ltd., has fully abandoned its extensive tramways.