Full Charge s Criticized
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THE'eputy town clerk of Folkestone, Mr. K. T. Salt, told the SouthEastern Traffic Commissioners at Canterbury last week that it was ridiculous for the Government to compel children to remain at school until the age of 15 and for children over 14, who were not wage earners, to have to pay full fares.
He was applying on behalf of Folkestone Town Council and 15 other Kent local authorities for a variation of the fares charged by the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., by raising the age of schoolchildren's fare concessions from 14 to 15.
The chairman, Mr. H. J. Thom, said the Commissioners agreed that there was an anomaly, but they thought it would be inappropriate to impose such a condition on the East Kent company alone. It would, he explained, be giving the vicious circle of rising fares an extra fillip.
He suggested that the East Kent company should consult with their
parent association and sister companies to see if such a concession could be incorporated in future applications by spreading. the cost on to the existing scholars' tickets.
In London, scholars over 14 and under 18 who hold identity cards issued by an educational authority are allowed half fares. So are juvenile employees, not earning more than 25s. a week, travelling to or from educational institutes, who hold similar identity cards.
ROTARY TRAFFIC PLAN
A SCHEME to speed traffic in the r-v centre of Birmingham has been submitted to the city surveyor by the local rotary club. The plan is to have three concentric circles of existing roads around the centre. The outer and inner circles would carry vehicles in a clockwise direction, and the middle anticlockwise. Buses would not be able to pass to the centre from the middle circle, and no vehicles could cross a circle directly.