PASSENGER SERVICES BY VILLAGE CARRIERS?
9th August 1957, Page 35
9th August 1957
Page 35

Page 35, 9th August 1957
— PASSENGER SERVICES BY VILLAGE CARRIERS?
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SHOULD village carriers be allowed to run passenger services, with the same vehicles as those they use under B licences, to solve the transport, problems faced by isolated rural communities? This question was discussed by the East Midlands Transport Users' Consultative Committee in Leicester last week.
Prof. R. Peers, chairman, said that dual passenger and goods services would pose many difficulties, for whereas the bus companies who were losing money on rural services would not welcome new competitors, the carriers would not be satisfied with taking people only short distances to the nearest bus routes.
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