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Operating Aspects of Passenger Transport

8th November 1940
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MORE EXPRESS BUSES IN LONDON

LAST week, in this feature, we intimated that London Transport had instituted 10 express bus services between the inner suburbs and selected

points in Central London. Four of these express routes have been .varied and a further 10 have now been put into operation. The buses on all these 20 routes stop at only one or two intermediate points where many passengers are normally picked up and set down.

PAYMENTS FOR USE OF BURNLEY BUS STATION

RIBBLE MOTOR SERVICES, LTD., has sought a reduction in the annual ,sum paid to Burnley Corporation for the use of the Cattle Marliet as a bus station. The committee has accepted an offer of £350 for the year ended March, 1940, £350 for the year ending March, 1941, and £300 for the year ending March, 1942.

DRIVER WINS APPEAL AGAINST LONDON TRANSPORT

AN appeal by Mr. A. Moscrop, a bus driver employed by the London Passenger Transport Board, against the decision in favour of the Board in an action in which he said that the Board had refused to allow him, in a disciplinary action, to be represented by an official of his trade union, has been allowed by the Court of Appeal.

PORTSMOUTH WAR-TIME BUS • PROFIT

DURING the first six months of the current financial year, Portsmouth Corporation made a profit of over £9,000 on its passenger-transport undertaking. There was a net profit of £7,813 on motorbuses and £3,011 on trolleybuses. Loan charges on the abandoned tram track totalled £1,688, leaving a profit of £9,141, compared with £16,848 in the previous year.

LIGHT SIGNAL TELLS OF RAID DANGER

A FLICKERING light signal, to Pt warn drivers of public-service vehicles of imminent danger during " Alerts " in the black-out, has been devised by Mr. R. Bellamy, acting manager of Hull Passenger Transport Department. With a view to introducing the device at Hull, the city's passen

ger transport committee is asking the Minister of Home Security to approve the installation of illuminated indicators, to be fixed to bus and tram standards.

On receipt of a warning of imminent danger, the flicker signal would be operated by means of an automatic switch, drivers thus being warned to conform to the required lighting conditions. The illumination of the indicators would be considerably below A.R.P. strength standards.

" TRENT " BUS ACQUISITION

WE are advised that the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., of Derby, has acquired the bus business of Mr. W. E. Wells, of Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire, As from November 1, his service between Derby and Aston-on-Trent and Weston-on-Trent has been operated by the Trent concern.

PRESTON'S £5,000 PROFIT

AT a meeting of Preston Town Council, Councillor F. Jamieson, Transport Committee chairman, reported that the undertaking made a profit of over £5,000 during the year ended March 31. It had a reserve of over £40,000, and the outstanding debt was less than £20,000.

FEW INTERIOR LIGHTS IN AIR RAIDS

UNDER the Minister of Home Security's Lighting Restrictions Amendment Order, issued last week, all but three of the interior lights on each deck of a trolleybus or tramcar must be switched off immediately a public airraid warning is sounded.

PASSENGER-TRAFFIC BOOM AT GLASGOW

GLASGOW'S municipal transport undertaking is booming. The latest traffic returns reported to the corporation transport committee show that from June 1 until October 19 there was a total increase of 8,500,000 passengers carried on all three services. During the same period the revenue increased by £224,864.

Each of the services shared in the increase, which is considered to be exceedingly good in view or the fact that the underground system has not been operating for six weeks to allow a scheme of reconstruction to be carried out. WORKMEN IGNORED AT BUS STOPS

GROWING dissatisfaction with the administration of the transport system was alleged by Councillor

Pilling at a meeting of Bolton Town Council. He asserted that vehicles were " run through " without waiting to pick up workmen at various stops, although there were vacant seats.

Aid. Bradley (transport chairman)

admitted the truth of the -allegation and said he had asked the transport

manager to give stricter instructions to the men. On the whole, the staff worked marvellously well under the prevailing difficult circumstances.

MORE "CLIPPEES " WANTED FOR LONDON'S COUNTRY BUSES

ANOTHER 600 women conductors are required for London Transport's country buses. Women aged between 21 and 35 years of age are invited to apply personally, or in writing, at any of the Board's country garages, of which there are 30. The rate of pay is £3 Os. 4d. a week, including war wage, rising to £3 Ils.

HIGHER MAINTENANCE CAUSES. INCREASED FARES

SUBJECT to the consent of the Ministry of Transport, Newcastleon-Tyne City Transport and Electricity Committee has decided to increase all id. fares on trolleybuses and trams to lid., in order to meet increased maintenanCe costs. Representatives of the committee met officials of Gateshead Corporation, in the area of which Newcastle trams also operate, to discuss the latter's attitude to the changes. Newcastle has made concessions to the Gateshead authority.

STAGGERED HOURS TO EASE BUS CONGESTION

ASUGGESTION that long-distance buses might be allowed to pick up short-distance city passengers, with a view to relieving peak-hour pressure on local services, was made by Mr. A. N. Braithwaite, at a recent meeting of the Council of Leeds Chamber of Commerce. Alderman A. R. Bretherick replied that it was a matter for the North-eastern Transport Commissioner.

The suggestion was made during a discussion concerning the question of staggering working hours in industry.


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