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Bristol Seek Mileage Fares: Birmingham Applies Again
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AN annual increase in operating costs of E214,500 was the reason given (last Friday) by Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., for their aprlicalion to place all fares, including those of subsidiaries, on a mileage basis. The inquiry was held by the Western Licensing Authority at Bristol.
Services affected operate in three county boroughs, 15 municipal boroughs, 18 urban districts and 34 rural districts in Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. Out of a possible 70, only three local authorities objected to the proposal.
• Mr. J. C. Perks, for Bath Corporation, said that whilst it was clear to the corporation that there was justification for some increase in fares, there was none for such a great advance.
160,000 More Profit?
lie called Mr. S. W. Hill, a London financial adviser, who, whilst agieeing that the company snuld be entitled to recover an additional £61,400 a year in increased fares, could not admit the proposed figure of £124,000. The calculations he had made, using the applicants' own figures, showed that the latter figure included a profit margin fa0,000 greater than in 1951.
The applicants' proposals would bring the fares operative in Bath and Westonsuper-Mare in line with those of Cheltenham and Gloucester, and those of Hanham in line with Bristol charges. The minimum single fare should, it is proposed, be ltd. up to 0.8 mile on country services. No single fare would he raised by more than I Id., and no return fare below 2s. 4d. by more than 2d. Return fares beyond 2s. 4d. would he increased by 3d.
Decision was reserved.
Unexpected Support
Support for Birmingham Transport Department's application for increased fares (details of which were given in the May 8 issue of The Commercial Motor) has appeared from an unexpected quarter.
Speaking before the West Midland Licensing Authority in Birmingham on Monday, Mr. W. H. Smith, general manager. said that he had just been notified that the employees' side of the National Joint Industrial Council for the passenger transport industry had submitted claims for further substantial wage increases amounting to £150,000 a ycar, Mr. J. P. Graham, Q.C., for the city council, told the Authority that if the application for higher wages was granted "we shall be troubling you again."
Despite economies. Birmingham had a deficiency of £331,799 for the year ended March, 1953. If nothing was done to counteract the department's losses there would be an accumulated deficit of £1,281,107 by March, 1955.
Decision was reserved. Proposals which the Burnley, Colne and Nelson Joint Transport Committee estimate will yield about £12,000 a year were heard .by the North Western Licensing Authority at Burnley last week.
Submitting that it was the committee's desire to "restore the undertaking to a position whereby it no longer runs at a financial loss," Mr. R. W. Gann said that the application was for permission to abolish workmen's discount tickets and workmen's return fares on local routes. The issue of Id. return tickets for schoolchildren under 18 was to be discontinued and a charge of Id. made for each single journey. Ordinary return fares between Trawden and Caine, and workmen's special single fares, were to be abolished.
The committee, said Mr. Gann, realized that increased fares must create some hardship for the travelling public, but they felt that persons who had enjoyed concessionary fares in the past should face their moral obligations to pay for what they received. He submitted that if their request to abolish workmen's fares was granted, they would be acting within precedents.
Decision was reserved.
Id. a Mile An application of Doncaster Corporation to implement a basic fare ol Id. a mile, to increase fares on certain routes and to raise the charge on certain weekly bus passes by ad. was the subject of a special hearing by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority at Doncaster yesterday.
City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd. have been granted permission hy the East Midland Licensing Authority to modify fares on 83 services, and the Midland General Omnibus Co., Ltd., and Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Traction Co. to increase fares on 15 services.