IMPROVING BUS FARES IN THE NORTHERN AREA
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The Railways Willing to Cooperate in this Important Matter TIIE decision of the Northern Area Traffic Commissioners to endeavour to standardize fares in the area resulted in a statement on behalf of the London and North Eastern Railway Co., at a recent sitting, that present low experimental fares on the railway had been introduced to compete with the bns fares ; if bus fares were standardized at a higher level by the Commissioners it would he possible to revise the experimental railway fares.
Mr. Henry Riches, the chairman, said that in cases where the railway fares were:lower than the bus fares it might be possible to ask the railway groups to increase their fares, or, alternatively, to permit bus operators to reduce their fares. It was reveared that on the Elyth-Whitley Bay-North Shields route bus receipts average 63-d. to 7d. per mile, whereas they should be 100. to lid.
At the recent Stockton sitting, when Stockton Corporation applied to run
buses from Stockton to Middlesbrough, the chairman' stated that there was no evidence that a service such as the corporation proposed wasrequired. It was submitted in opposition that the route was already • adequately served and that the corporation made .a late claim.
At the Sunderland sitting the A.B.C. Omnibus Co. obtained a licence for its Sunderland-Darlington route, the application for which was objected to by the . Sunderland District Omnibus Co„, Ltd., the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., United Automobile Services,. Ltd., the railway interests, etc.