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HEAVIER FARES ON " BAD " ROUTES

4th May 1962, Page 97
4th May 1962
Page 97
Page 97, 4th May 1962 — HEAVIER FARES ON " BAD " ROUTES
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

ALTIIOUGH they stated that they could suggest no solution to the problem and were not ,.prepared to contemplate any suggestion that crosssubsidization should cease. the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners, in their recent decision on a fares application by the Thames Valley Traction Co., Ltd., gave a ruling which, I understand, will be welcomed by stage carriage operators who have to maintain unrenninerative rural services.

It was put forward on behalf of the company that 61 per cent. of their services was unremunerative, and whilst every effort had been made to maintain those services, the stage had been reached, it was considered, where subsidization by the public travelling on paying routes had gone too far. At the time of the application, apparently, two scales of fare calculation were in operation. The company proposed a special high scale, an intermediate scale and a cheap one; and the proposal found favour with the Commissioners who, in effect— after being given detailed figures of the losses—gave their blessing to the singling out of the particularly " bad " services and the imposition of heavier fares upon those particular routes.

Unfortunate for the regular few who travel on the bad services but, as Mr. H. J. Thom, the chairman, indicated, there seems to be no solution. The company, I understand, have allowed for a 24 per cent. passenger resistance. Presumably, if that resistance is greater, the buses will come off the road altogether.

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