Ignorance About Fares and Stages
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" AN honest passenger may not be
aware that he is over-riding. There is an astonishing amount of ignorance, which I share, about fare stages and stops." This remark was made by Mr. Hubert Hull, chairman, at the Transport Tribunal's resumed hearing of the British Transport Commission's application to increase London Transport fares, on Monday.
In a preliminary judgment issued last month (The Commercial Motor,
lune 18), the Tribunal instructed the B.T.C. to prepare a modified scheme, limiting the extra revenue to £3.6m. instead of £4.3m. They also suggested hat a new fare of 3d. for three stages .hould be introduced.
Submitting the modified proposals on donday, Mr. Harold Willis, Q.C., said hat the 3d, fare could not be confined o 3d. for three stages. There would be onsequential alterations at all other taws.
Even to the ordinary passenger, he sid, the task of London conductors lust sometimes appear almost hopeless. . would possibly be a disastrous step I make that task more difficult.
" If a conductor on one of the central tad services of London Transport fails, s an average, to collect one minimum re on each trip—from one end of his urney to the other—the loss through e year to London Transport would be 42,000," said Mr. Willis. If there :re single-stage charges, the loss might 11 run to ilm, or more.