Consideration has recently been given by the Public' Utilities Committee and the Shanghai Municipal Council to the question of the adequacy of the mileage fees paid by the China General Omnibus Company and the Tramway Company.
Factors which indicated the inadequacy of the existing fees included the more than doubling of the east of read materials and the growth in weight and capacity of the omnibuses.
The existing fees under consideration were as follows:
Tt was noted that as compared with the original standard omnibus, the present average omnibus, including vehicles on order, taken half-loaded, was now 22 per cent. heavier; that as compared with the original standard omnibus the average railless car was lighter; and that the average passenger capacity of the omnibus fleet had risen from 30 to 58.
It was considered by the Public Utilities Committee and the Council that these factors justified an increase of 10 per cent, on the existing mileage responded to the 10 per cent. surcharge imposed on all vehicular lieénee fees last year, and that more-existed for the making a total of 20 per cent. on the existing mileage fee in respect of omnibuses having regard to the increased weight and capacity of these vehicles.
The agreement of the Tramway and proviso that the matter be subject to reconsideration when exchange reverts to a more normal level.
The. French Tramway Company has also agreed that the increase be applied to the buses operated by them on the north side of Avenue Edward VII and Avenue Foch.
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