LEEDS APPEAL ON WORKMEN'S FARES
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APPEALS by Leeds Corporation concerning the issue at workmen's cheap tickets on privately owned bus services came before Mr. E. H. P. Jolly. at Leeds, on Monday.
The Corporation appealed against the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners' decisions to extend from the Leeds city boundary to some distance within the city the zone within which private operators on the Leeds-Rawdon and Leeds-Ilkley-Otley routes can issue workmen's tickets up to 3.80 a.m.
Mr. B. de H. Pereira, for the appellants, submitted that the Commissioners bad granted the concessions without any evidence as to the need, and that they were prejudicial to the municipal bus and tram services, on which, he said, workmen's tickets were at present restricted to 7.45 Mr. Jolly said that an application by Leeds Corporation for permission to issue workmen's tickets up to 8.30 destination time was pending. If this application was granted, would there be any further point of " difference between the parties?
Mr. Pereira said he had no instructions upon that point.
Mr. W. R. Hargrave, for some of the respondent companies, Contended that the corporation's services were still amply protected. .
Mr. R. C. Davies, for other respondent companies, pointed out that for two miles between the tram terminus and the city boundary, Leeds Corporation ran no transport service of any kind. He remarked that the position would be a sorry one if the corporation could come along with reference to a route, upon two miles of which it did not operate any service, and say to other operators; "You are interfering with our rights."
Hull Corporation's first trolleybus route will be officially opened on Friday, July 23.