£500 a Week from Fare-dodgers
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THE example of a town where revenue had increased by £500 a week when special staff had been assigned to catch fare-dodgers, was quoted before Cardiff Transport Committee when a proposal was made to investigate the non-payment of fares on the transport department's buses.
Rejecting the proposal, the committee decided to seal permanently one of the two doorways in the undertaking's trolleybuses, and to specify only one combined entrance and exit in trolleybuses ordered in the future.
Mr. J. F. Siddall, transport manager, said that the annual maintenance cost of the doors which are to be sealed was between £350 and £400.
The first nine months of the current year showed a deficit of £6,644, nearly £3,000 of which had accrued since December 26. Whilst the profit from motorbuses was £5,417, the deficit on the trolleybuses had grown to 12,326.