DAY TRIPS NOT SO POPULAR
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BEFORE the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, at Leeds last week, Mr. J. T. Rogers suggested that full-day coach trips were waning in popu
larity. Asking for additional facilities for the operation of half-day and short-day excursions to the East Coast and to Morecambe, he said that if the application were granted he was willing to give up certain of his day excursions.
At one time, said Mr. Rogers, people were willing to get up at six o'clock in the morning to go on a day excursion. To-day, they preferred to get up a little later and take a short-day or halfday trip.
For the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., which opposed the applica
tion, Mr. W. R. Hargrave submitted that the result of granting such an application would be to divert traffic from–the express carriage services, as excursion fares bore no relation to the normal express carriage fare.
For the railway companies, Mr. C. R. Hodgson argued, that if such applications were granted. there would soon be direct services to the coast from every outlying point in a district. Mr. T. Hick, for R. Barr (Leeds), Ltd., also opposed the application.
The Commissioners reserved their decision.