Concessionary Fares iN his paper on "Concessionary 1 Fares" Mr.
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A. F. Neal (Manchester) classified concessionary fares into three classes, those introduced because they were commercially worthwhile, or as a condition of employment or for social reasons. Mr. Neal discussed alternative proposals for each category and asked whether the financial assistance for reduced fares should not be granted by others; for instance, by education authorities for school-children's fares; by central government for workpeople's fares; out of national assistance for oldage pensioners.
Mr. Neal concluded that in the light of increasing competition was it not the Dl case that the only concessionary fares that can be afforded are those that improved the financial position of a transport undertaking?
Disagreement was voiced by Cllr. C. S. McRonald (Birkenhead), who maintained that just because delegates belonged to municipal authorities, they should look after those in need.
"If we have to wait for the Government to help old age pensioners," he maintained, "we should have to wait a very long time."
Delegates shouted disapproval when McRonald stated that children often travelled in off-peak hours.
In contrast delegates voiced approval of the comment of Aid, G. A. Browns (Rotherham) that the financial concessions discussed were the responsibility of the central and not the local government.