BUS HALTS BATTLE IN PERTH
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" 'THE great bulk of people who I travel on these excursions and tours are elderly people and invalids, and if they cannot be picked up at their doors they are not going to walk a considerable distance into the town to get the vehicles."
This statement was made by Mr. R. W. Currie, representing W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., at a sitting of the Northern Scotland Traffic Commissioners, in Perth, on March 31. Applicant asked permission to pick up intending passengers from ten hotels and hoarding-houses, the majority in
Comrie Road, Crieff. Perth County Council objected to so many picking-up points being granted.
Mr. Currie said the picking-up of passengers at these boarding-houses had been done for the past 12 years. Only when a comparatively recent decision had been made had it come to the notice of the Commissioners that it was not actually on the licence. He understood Crieff Town Council had no objection.
Mr. Henry Riches said the town council was concerned only for unclassified roads. Comrie Road was a classified road, over which the county council bad control.
Mr. Riches stated that Connie Road was narrow and winding, and that it might be dangerous for vehicles to be standing on that road for any length of time, but Mr. Curds suggested that the coaches would have to stand a matter of only three or four minutes.
After further discussion it was agreed that picking-up should be permitted at the Hydro in Ferntower Road, at any of the recognized bus halts,. and on unclassified roads. Mr. Currie expressed himself as satisfied with this finding of the Commissioners.