CHEAPER TRAM RIDES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 76, 26 September 1924, Page 5

CHEAPER TRAM RIDES

OVER MORE THAN ONE SECTION CONCESSION TICKET PRICES REDUCED. In accordance with a recommendation of the Tramway Committee, the City Council last evening agreed to a general reduction of threepence per ticket in the prices 'of two, three, four, and five-section concession tickets, the new scale to come into force as soon as arrangements can be made for tho issuing of new sets of tickets, probably about the middle of next month. The new prices will then be:—Concession tickets: 16 trip, two section, 3s 3d; 14 trip, three section, 3s 9d; 14 trip, four section, 4s; 14' trip, five section, 4s 6d. Workers' tickets, 12 trips in each case: Two sections, 2s; three septions, 2s 9d; four sections, 3s 3d; five sections, 3s 6d.

The reductions' represent a concession to the public of about £7000 per annum. Under tho new rates the fare per section on each class of concession ticket will be as follows:—

A reduction of threepence upon the one-section concession ticket, the Mayor stated, would have meant a reduction in revenue of about .£15,000, and the1 committee felt that at the present time the department could not afford it. Perhaps next year, though he could not make any promises, a reduction could be made in the one-section ticket; for the moment it could not be afforded. Councillor Parton again . suggested that some further relief should be given the parents of large families either by the reducing of the rates for children or the raising of the age under which children's rates held. He asked that a return should be prepared showing what such a policy would cost the department.

Concession. Workers. a. . a. 1 section 1.50 2-section -1.21 1.00 3 section 1.07 .91 4 section .87 .81 5 section 77 .75