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"Seven-day Tickets Cause Hardship "

5th July 1957, Page 47
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RETURN tickets valid for only seven days cause serious hardship to the travelling public, particularly during the holiday season, say Henley Rural District Council. They have decided to ask the East Midland Traffic Commissioners to instruct Chiltern Queens, Ltd., who operate stage services in rural south Oxfordshire, to extend the period of availability of their return tickets to bring them into line with accepted practice.

The council took the Matter up with the company and received a reply in which it was said .that although discussions had taken place with a view to extending the period, it was decided that no alteration should take place for the time being.

Capt. C. J. Goldsmid told the council that return tickets should be available on buses for at least as long as for trains. He suggested that the council should do something more than submit to the arbitrary ruling of the company. The public, especially when going on holiday, should not have to buy two single tickets, he said.

MANAGEMENT COURSE AT ASHRIDGE THE subject of this year's transport

course at Ashridge College, Berkhamsted, Herts, to be held from September 13-16, will be "Problems of Management in Transport." Maj.-Gen. G. N. Russell, general manager of British Road Services, will lecture on labour management, and Mr. A. F. R. Carling, of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., on "The Size of the Unit."

Other speakers will be Sir Reginald Wilson, a member of the British-Transport Commission, Mr. D. McKenna, British Railways, and Prof. H. D. Dickinson, Bristol University.

Inclusive fee for the week-end is 14 4s.

ONE-WAY TRAFFIC AT -KINGSWAY JUNCTIONS?

QN Tuesday, London County Council were due to consider a scheme, submitted by the town planning committee, for a large one-way traffic system to ease congestion at the intersection of Kingsway and High Holborn and the Kingsway-Southampton Row junction with Theobald's Road. Total estimated cost would be £2.5m.

High Holborn west of Kingsway would be widened, Southampton Place would be widened and realigned, Theobald's Road would be widened, and a new link road built between Theobald's Road and High Holborn.

RADIO FOR BOMBAY 'TWO-WAY radio equipment to the I value of Rs.15,000. is to be bought by Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking for use in coping with peak-hour passenger traffic. Roving vans, it is planned, could tour the city and inform headquarters as to where extra vehicles should be sent.


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