MORE DEMANDS FOR TUNNEL SERVICE
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ARENEWAL of the plea for a bus .:service through the Queensway Tunnel was made at a meeting of the council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday of last week, Mr. G. H. Ward said that thousands of people were paying rates on the tunnel,but received no service from it. The tunnel was doing remarkably well financially, and he considered that there was a definite need for a bus service.'
The income, he contended, would be greatly increased if a bus service were operated, and both Liverpool and Birkenhead :Were at present being deprived of revenue. The two transport committees of the Chamber should be asked to reconsider the question again.
Councillor P. Allery, Mayor of Bir
fludnates. It is, therefore, unavoidable that the staff should be reduced and increased accordingly.
The -Union contends, however, that there is ample work for the men.
GLASGOW SPREAD-OVER DUTIES REFORM.
A FURTHER reform of spread-over CA, duties for Glasgow Corporation transport drivers and conductors has been recommended. After hearing a deputation from the Transport and General Workers Union, the Conditions of Service Committee agreed, on August 28, to the reform of spreadover duties on Saturday.
The estimated cost Of the concession, which would allow 80 per cent, of the men to complete their work within 10 hours, is £8,262 a year. The cost is necessitated by the eniplovrnent of additional men on Saturday.
LEICESTER'S FAREPROTECTION PROBLEM
THE East Midlands Traffic Commis-;',.
sioners will shortly' be called' oil:to decide the problem as to whether a bus passenger can travel twice in the same, direction with one return ticket. '
Twelve applications have been made concerning the protective area at the Leicester end of the Leicester-Loughborough bus route. The L M.S. and L.N.E. Railway Companies have objected, and, as the route passes along that of a service operated by Leicester Corporation, the corporation has also lodged objections.
At present private bus companies, of which there are several, charge threepence single and fivepence return between Birstall and Leicester, which affords the corporation a fare protection.
kenhead, remarked that the tunnel was mainly inaugurated for the benefit of commerce. It was outside the original scheme for which it was built that an individual in Birkenhead or Liverpool should be allowed to go through the tunnel just to see it.
A NEW STRIKE THREAT.
ATHREAT of a general stoppage-of transport workers in Manchester has arisen from the dismissal of 12 body makers at the Corporation's works at Hyde Road. Although the possibility of strike action is confined, at the moment, to 250 vehicle workers, the union is endeavouring to persuade workers in other grades to stop work in sympathy.
The 12 men concerned are members of the National Union of . Vehicle Builders; and the district organizer, Mr. I. Floyd, alleges that they are affected by the placing of contracts ith private manufacturers. Local leaders of other transport unions have discussed the position and, although no decision has been reached regarding sympathetic action, strong views were expressed, it is understood, in the light of similar happenings alleged in other municipal transport undertakings in Lancashire.
Mr. Stuart Filcher, general manager of the Manchester transport department, has told the unibn that the amount of work at the depot naturally
A corner of the new coach station opened to-clay by Blackpool Omnibus Stations. Ltd., at Tyldesley Road, Blackpool. Built at a cost of 160,000, the station has covered platforms which will give shelter La some 2,000 people.
The operators are now applying for return tickets to be available for one journey in either direction or two journeys in one direction, and the corporation regards this as a violation of its fare protection.