Western Express Fares Up
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FOUR operators in the West of England have been given permission by the Western Licensing Authority to increase by 12!r, per cent, fares on their week-end express services. They are Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., Associated Motorways, and the Western and Southern National Omnibus companies.
Mr. S. W. Nelson, chairman, said the application was not extravagant. It was right that people using express services, on which fares had not been raised for nearly five years, should contribute to the higher, costs of operation and not leave it to be met by the stage-carriage traveller.
As well as resulting in more revenue, the increases would help to spread the passenger load throughout the week when services would be operated more economically.
LICENCE TO CARRY SCRAP TYRES
THE Western Licensing Authority last week gutted a B licence to Mr. T. G. Bryan, •17 Whittocks Road, Hanham, Bristol, for two vehicles to carry scrap tyres. British Road Services and the railways were the objectors.
A representative of Tyre Disposals, Ltd., a company for whom the applicant wished to carry, stated that the railways could not supply the labour necessary for the work. B.R.S. had been employed once in January, 1955, and took two days to convey a load from Bristol to Bristol docks_
Mr. J. Slater, depot superintendent, B.R.S., refuted this. The work had been spread over two days at the customers' request, he said. B.R.S. had suitable vehicles and could provide extra labour.
The Authority allowed. Mr. Bryan to carry for Tyre Disposals, Ltd., and County Tyre Services (Bristol), Ltd., also printing machinery, prefabricated garages and greenhouses within 150 miles.
"GIVE RULES A CHANCE" I N a letter to Croydon Town Council, the Minister of Transport has rejected their suggestion that all vehicles parked on roads at night should be illuminated. Regulations permitting parking without lights, he said, had not been in operation long enough for their effect to be assessed. He understood that no substantial evidence of an increase in accidents because of the parking of unlit vehicles had come to the notice of the police.
NO SPECIAL A LICENCE
THE South Wales Licensing Authority has refused to grant a special A licence for a lorry weighing 4f tons unladen to Mr. R. Davies, Chemical Works 'Yard, Pontardawe, Glam.