The new transit fare schedule will bring an additional revenue of $500,000 a year to the Winnipeg Electric Co. there is no drop in passenger riding.

C. H. Dahl, transportation manager of the Winnipeg Electric Co. utility, gave this as the approximate revenue which the increased fares are expected to yield.

In its application to the Municipal and Public Utilities Board, the company sought additonal revenue of $700,000 a year.

Mr. Dahl said today, however, that an anticipated drop in passengers would probably reduce the additional 1949 revenue to about $350,000.

He noted that a six percent drop in passengers would reduce the $500,000 figure to about $300,000.

During this past year the company granted a wage increase of 11 cents an hour to employees. Mr. Dahl stated this totalled $450,000 additional expense to the railway utility.

The new fare schedule, effective Nov. 15 is the first change in tram fares in the city since 1931.

The board met all the company's requests with two main exceptions. The basic adult rate in the city was not changed, and the monthly pass was not eliminated.

The new schedule announced Friday afternoon by the board will be effective No. 15 until April 30. 1951.

A total of 48 per cent of the riders will pay increased rates under the new schedule.

The present monthly pass will be effective to the end of the month. Present tickets for children and zone fares will not be accepted after Nov. 14. However, they will be refunded after that date for full face value.

Boundaries of the city fare zone are to remain as at present.

The municipal hall will be the end of the city fare zone in Fort Garry. From there on the suburban fare will be in force.

For quite a few years payment of zone fares beyond this point had been abandoned.

The new schedule will remain in effect until April 30, 1951.

In answer to R. D. Guy, K.C., counsel for the Winnipeg Electric Co., D. L. Mellish, chairman of the board, stated further application will be allowed on revised rates if the new schedule does not produce the revenue expected.

"The board assumes that modernization and service revision will have been completed by April 1951," Mr. Mellish stated in the board judgement.

"With those changes it is hoped that by that time the fare schedule heretofore existing will be ample."

All employees of the Winnipeg Electric Co. (other than those in the transportation system) will have to pay the same fare as the public.

In his reason for judgement, Mr. Mellish noted that the solution to the transit problem is not by increasing fares alone.

"The main hope should lie in modernization and revising operation and service, with some help from price recession."

Mr. Mellish stressed full co-operation by the company, municipalities, and the riding public.

He stated that "although the company failed to prove that any change in the basic fare structure was necessary, nevertheless some relief is necessary at least for the time being."

This finding was based "on the evidence submitted and by the analysis of the company's financial position by the special char-

FARE COMPARISON

CITY FARES

Students over 12 years of age attending school will qualify for the six tickets for 25 cents between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Riders to University will now have to pay 11 2/3 cents a ride, instead of 10 cents as at present.

The 10-cent fare to the University is discontinued. Now students will have to pay the basic city fare of 7 3/6 cents and the zone fare of 4 1/6 cents, totalling 11 2/3 cents.

The $5 monthly pass for students inside the city is discontinued.

SUBURBAN ZONE

(Children ride two zones on one zone fare.)

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