P.V.O.A. Resisting Bans on Buses
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THE Passenger Vehicle Operators
Association have objected to a move by Ramsgate Borough Council seeking the Minister of Transport's confirmation for them to prevent public service vehicles using certain lengths of Queen Street and King Street.
It is expected that the Minister will shortly hold a public inquiry into the proposal and that the chairman of the South Eastern Licensing Authority will preside in his capacity as a Ministry inspector. The next day the Authority will hold a public inquiry to consider the council's proposal to vary the road service licences concerned to conform with the proposed Order determined on the preceding day.
The P.V.O.A, state that discrimination of that sort against one section of road transport is unfair and unjustified. They claim that: (1) the Order can have no effect on passenger-carrying vehicles with more than eight seats and not licensed as public service vehicles; (2) if the object is to ease congestion, all vehicles should be subject to the Order; (3) the proposal is an attempt further to restrict vehicles already adequately *controlled by law and is discriminatory.
Discrimination against the publicservice vehicle was also alleged by the P.V.O.A., the Public Transport Association, Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co., Ltd., and other local operators, at a Ministry of Transport inquiry at Dartmouth on Tuesday.
The inquiry was into a proposal by Devon County Council to make an Order prohibiting public-service vehicles, unless being used on stage services, from using a portion of the Bri xha m-Kingswear road.
Decisitin was reserved.