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THE experimental shuttle bus service between the Pollok housing estate
and Corkerhill railway station, Glasgow, is to be discontinued, because it has resulted in a heavy loss of revenue to Glasgow Transport Department.
Of the large population of the Pollok area—estimated at 40,000—only 36 persons availed themselves of the combined road-rail weekly tickets in one week in August, and in one week in October the total was 37. The combined ticket costs 4s. 6d., of which 3s. 6d. goes to British Railways and Is. to the department. A shuttle service between Pollok and the railway station is maintained at peak periods.
Mr. E. R. L. Fitzpayne, general manager of the department, has reported that in the eight weeks ended October 27, the shuttle-service buses .ran 820 miles per week and revenue varied from :£14 18s. 7d. per week to £17 I Is. 3d. Revenue per mile ranged between 4.37d. and 5.14d. The average total cost of motorbus operation was about 2s. 2d. per mile. The transport committee has authorized the discontinuance of the arrangement as from December 5.
In the Inglis report, summarized in "The Commercial Motor" last week, the Pollok-Corkerhill service was cited as an example of a railway feeder system which is proposed as an important part of the integrated transport scheme recommended for Glasgow and the Clyde Valley.