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Appeal won
TRANSPORT Secretary Nicholas Ridley had allowed an appeal by M. Harty, trading as Cosham Coaches, against the picking up and setting down restrictions on one end of a stage carriage route between Horndean and Fareham in Hampshire.
He also dismissed an appeal by National Bus Company subsidiary Southdown against the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners' refusal to place similar restrictions at the other end of the route.
While agreeing with his inspector that the Cosham service will abstract revenue from Southdown, he noted that the new service offered new opportunities for through journeys, and attractive fares.
He does not believe that restrictions on the passengers who may be picked up and set down at places where buses properly stop are in the public interest, and that such discrimination between passengers, if enforced, will create confusion and resentment.
If the conditions were not enforced it would bring the regulation into disrepute.