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Green Light from Sunderland Busmen on One-man Plans
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BUS crews employed by Sunderland Corporation Transport have accepted a pay rise offered to them to operate 47-seat, one-man single-deck buses under the town's ambitious scheme to switch entirely to this type of bus. The new pay scale will give the drivers of the one-man buses a basic wage of £16 10s. a week. This puts the Corporation in the position of being able to apply for the 4d. flat fare and use of pre-purchased tokens which would reduce the cost per passenger to just over 3d., which it is proposed to introduce throughout the system.
However, the next signal is al anything but green, as the Northern General Transport Co. Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiary, The Sunderland District Omnibus Co. Ltd., which operates jointly with SCT on five services, are to fight the Corporation's application (The Commercial Motor, November 19). The companies state that the fare system pro
posed by Sunderland Corporation is so different from their own fares structure that it is difficult to see how the two can be married. Only if the Corporation is prepared to remove the subsidy that the transport department receives from the rates (amounting to a 31d, rate for the coming year) will the companies be prepared to negotiate.
Sunderland Corporation's answer is (in the words of a spokesman) that the company should "get off" the local services and leave them free for the Corporation if they cannot make them pay.
When Sunderland first applied for a fares revision on the basis of a subsidy from the rates, this step was criticized by Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, chairman of the Northern Traffic Commissioners. Later, Mr. Hanlon conceded that the town's policy of keeping the fares down by employing relief from the rates was encouraging more people to travel by bus than otherwise would be the case.