Southport Buses to Go on Rates?
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BUS services could not he cut further and there appeared to be no more ways of economizing. There had been Little saving from one-man buses. said Cllr. R. Johnson, chairman of Southport Transport Committee. Although the committee did not want to do so. It seemed that the services must be placed on the rates.
Cur. Johnson said a 3d. rate, yielding £18,000 a year, would keep them " above water.The department had given nearly £120,000 to the relief of rates in the past and had had nothing back.
He added that the railwaYs were carrying people in the borough at uneconomic rates. Single rail fares to Crossens and Ainsdale were 7d. and 8d. respectively, but cheap-day returns were only 7d. and 9d. Even period return fares were cheaper, in some instances, than on the buses.
Council officials and employees of the transport department are said to be now using rail for local journeys.