PRESTON TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS CRITICISED.
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" Despite the .elaborate arrangements made by the .Prestori police authorities, their .execution left much to the discretion of the police constables imported from rural . areas," said a Preston bus proprietor to The Commercial Motor " Mth.11 inconvenience was caused to the local bus proprietors," he said, and owing to the alleged mishandling ot 'baffle they withdrew theircircular tours of the town, " The fare charged was is. per passerq,-cr," he said, " and it took the DUI vehicles 'nearly an hour to do threequarters' of a mile. Held up all the time. Consequently I withdrew my firm's_ services Pad the local motor owners been taken into consultation in the making of traffic arrangements, there would not have been anything.like the inconvenience that was experienced: One day my buses were ordered off the regular stand and placed on another, Jiidge my surprise when I discovered that. other vehicles, hackney carriages, were using it, and the driVers touting for fares. On another occasion, after a procession, some of the vehicles were 'permitted to pass and take up their usual standskin the town, whilst others were held up.
"On Saturday, September 2nd, we carried 16,740 "passengers on Sunday 15,8058, which was better than I expected : Whitsun-Monday the number was8,390 with.33 buses. Why, we carried -13;000 -'passengers when we had a smaller. fleet. of 20 or •30 vehicles," said Major. .Hickmott, managing director of the Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.