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Pay Award Brings Fare Applications
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AN application for fare increases which would affect more than 200 services has been made by the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd. They have asked the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners to grant increases of up to Id. on fares between 3d. and is.; up to 2d. on those from Is. Id. to 2s,; and up to 3d. on fares above 2s.
The company propose to retain the existing 2d. minimum.
Two local authorities—Reading and Newport (Mon)----are also seeking fare increases. At Reading it is proposed that the 2d. minimum should be retained for journeys of up to half a mile, but other 2d. fares should be increased to 3d. Fares of 3d. and over would go up by ld.
The corporation are to ask for corresponding increases in children's fares, but they will couple this with a request that scholars' permits should be issued to children up to 15 years of age instead of the present 14. Newport faces a 1.15,000 increase in the wages bill following the award to bus crews, and the corporation propose to add 4d. for each fare stage.
There will be no application for increases by ,Burton-on-Trent Corporation, who have to find an extra £4,500. Aid. T. Osborne, chairman of the transport committee, said traffic had steadily increased over the past few months, and if this trend continued fares could be held steady.
Cardiff Corporation made a profit of 11,645 in the 'first six months of the present financial year, but Mr, R. I._ Davies, City Treasurer, forecast last week that the year's trading would end with a £10,000 deficit. The wage award alone would cost the undertaking £35,000.
Gross profit of Doncaster buses in the 1957-58 financial year was £104,717, compared wi:h £102,327 the previous year, according to figures issued last week.