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Liverpool Get Increases and 3d. Minimum
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New Fares Should Bring Extra £630,000 LAST Tuesday Liverpool Corporation were granted permission to increase their bus fares and introduce for the first time a 3d. minimum fare to cover a ±:346,000 deficiency last year.
The new scales went through despite opposition from two neighbouring authorities, Kirkby and Huyton-withRoby, the City's Trade Council and Labour Party and a number of individual objectors when application was made to the North Western Trati:c Comm:ssioners at an all-day sitting.
The general increase will be Id, on all present fares, to operate from September 30. The special airport bus service from the city centre to Speke is to be increased From 2s. 6d. to 3s.
Mr. Stanley Holmes, deputy town clerk of Liverpool, said that until last September the Corporation had succeeded in maintaining fares at a stable level for the past five years. They then had to ask for increases against a background of rising costs and the object was achieved by applying for a reduction in fare stages. A request for a 3d. minimum fare was at that time refused.
He explained that not only had the Corporation lost £135,000 which a 3d. minimum would have produced, but a further .1131,000 also.
Wage increases had put a further £144,000 burden on the undertaking and last year there had been a deficiency of £346,000.
"It was hoped," said Mr. Holmes, "that the yield from the increases in a full year would amount to £630,000, this being the minimum required to meet the needs of the transport service."
Mr. P. G. Higginbottorn, for Huytonwith-Roby Council, claimed that £130.000 could he recouped by more efficient working and economies within the department and this should have been tackled before any increases were asked for, he maintained.