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IRKSOME TICKET CONDITIONS • H OW are the circumstances of coach operation
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in the SouthEastern Area so different from those in other areas that the issue of single and period-return tickets on seasonal express services from the coast to London must be prohibited? This is a question that has troubled many operators and to which a satisfactory answer has not, to our knowledge, yet been discovered.
It is a remarkable fact that the South-Eastern Area is the only area in which the Commissioners have seen fit to introduce such a restriction. The history of the condition extends back over several years, and the prohibition has been the subject of many costly appeals.
In the aggregate, the expense of opposing the restriction has possibly almost equalled the profit from the transport of passengers holding single and period-return tickets from the coast, but it is the principle involved that justifies the expenditure.
It is difficult to explain to residents at seaside resorts that they are not permitted to travel in company with friends holding return tickets from London, but must use another service at the direction of the Commissioners and the Minister. Restrictions of this kind are likely to alienate the public from road transport as a whole and may not, in the long run, benefit the coaching concerns. for the protection of which they have, partly. been imposed on independent operators. On several occasions the Commissioners have been requested to hold a special inquiry into all applications involving the prohibition in question, but this plea has been rejected. Recently. when the renewal of the licences of to operators was con • sidered. it was submitted that the Commissioners had no jurisdiction to impose the conditions and that the railways had no locus standi. Both these arguments were overruled.
Nevertheless, as reported elsewhere in this issue. the Commissioners have decided to permit the use of single and period-return tickets from the coast by the two operators, so long as they are purchased from headquarters in London. No agency is to be set up at coastal termini for the issue of such tickets. This concession does not, however, suit all operators, and further developments are likely.