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Commissioners consider concessionary fares
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• Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd, of Leeds, applied to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioner in Leeds on Monday, to continue offering a 20s. concessionary fare to students travelling on a day excursion from Leeds, Bradford, or Castleford to London. The students have to be 25 years or under and must be receiving full-time education at an educational establishment. Objections were entered by West Yorkshire Road Car Co Ltd, Yorkshire Pool Services and the British Railways Board. West Yorkshire work closely with Wallace Arnold in the winter period, with the companies sharing their London excursion bookings. This means that West Yorkshire has, on occasion, carried students at the concessionary rate.
Mr J. E. Hanson, for Wallace Arnold, explained that the concessionary fare had been granted in August 1968 but for a limited period ending on December 31 1969. The application in question was to make the special fare a permanent condition on the licence. Mr Hanson said that the 20s fare had not generated as mach traffic as had been expected. In fact, only 91 student passengers had been carried during 1969.
Mr William B. Jackson, licensing officer for Wallace.Arnold, said that the 91 carried represented completely new traffic as without the concessionary fare most of the students would have hitch-hiked. The normal rate for a London day excursion was 36s. by bus and £3 by rail.
Mr P. Fingret, for West Yorkshire and Yorkshire Pool, pointed out that the West Yorkshire single fare to London was 31s. This meant that students could have saved 11s. through buying a special-rate return and then not coming back. Mr Jackson said that his company's booking staff had been instructed not to accept bookings from students whom they new would not be returning.
The president of the students' union at Leeds Polytechnic, Mr John Hewitt, said that students had to live on about £9 a week. They could not afford to travel on the objectors' services; he thought, however, that the £1 was quite reasonable.
Mr C. Craven, assistant manager of West Yorkshire, said that his company considered that special fares was the wrong way to meet the problem of people who had limited incomes. He had positive instances where 'students did not return.
The Commissioners reserved their decision.