.THE METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONER ON TERMINAL ACCOMMODATION
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Advice to Operators on Terminal Points Off the Public Highway TEW Traffic Commissioner has caused the following letter to be circulated to public-service vehicle operators in the London area :— "I am directed by the Traffic Commissioner for the Metropolitan Area to
inform you that at his first public sitting on April 20th last, he stated that he must warn all holders of and applicants for road service licences in the Metropolitan Traffic Area that they should lose no time in making arrangements for terminal points off the public highway, and that after the current year it may not be possible to -grant or regrant road service licences to any applicant who has not provided such facilities.
"The Commissioner considers that this warning should be brought to the notice of all coach operators in order to enable them to make arrangements without delay for terminal points from which to operate next year any service for which they might be granted a road-service: licence.
"In making arrangements or provisional agreements for the right to use buildings or land as such terminal points, care should be exercised so that sites chosen will not ,entail the operation of coaches in such a-mannevas to obstruct or cut across traffic, as the Traffic Commissioner will have to consider on each application for a roadservice licence whether the use of a proposed site can be authorized or not, having regard to general traffic conditions. Any site chosen should also be situated in a position which will be a convenient centre for the passengers who are to be carried, as the new terminal points will require to be used in substitution for those previously authorized on the public highways and not in addition thereto.; the Commissioner will not be able to authorize an operator to adopt, a new terminal point on private property and at the same time to continue to use the old terminal point as one of his pick-up points on the ground that the site chosen happens to be at a distance from his; present terminal point. "Where feeder routes are operated and passengers are transferred from one coach to another, the transfer of the passengers will also require to be effected in coach stations or on private property, and not on the public highways or streets."