T HE Commons has g iven a First Readin g to a Bill
Page 15
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
which will allow local authorities to give free travel or reduced fares on public service vehicles. Second Reading is planned for March 22. Introducing the measure, .Mr. Edward Short (Labour, Newcastle Central) said that about 90 local authority transport undertakings granted travel concessions. in the main to retirement pensioners, disabled or blind persons, and children and young people attending educational establishments. But the pattern of concessionary fares throughout the country was frozen at what it was on November 30, 1954. The result was that considerable hardship and a great sense of unfairness had been caused about the way the concessionary fares were working. His Bill would amend the Public Service Vehicles (Travel Concessions) Act of 1955. which limited the granting of concessionary fares, so that local authorii les could give reduced fares to limited categories of people.