§ 78. Mr. VIANTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the effect of the revised police regulations in force for omnibuses at the British Empire. Exhibition is to give further preferential treatment to the London General Omnibus Company by preventing other omnibuses from stopping to take up or set down passengers in Wembley Hill Road between Raglan Gardens and Harrow Road; whether he is aware that this restricted area is practically the whole of the exhibition area, excepting the entrance to the amusement park, which is at least a quarter of a mile away; and, in view of the fact that the non-combine omnibuses are now unable to approach the main entrance to set down or take up passengers, whether the Commissioner of Police will revise these regulations, with a view of permitting the two island sites to be again used?
Mr. HENDERSONThe Commissioner informs me that his regulations, with which the omnibuses of the London General Omnibus Company, as well as 438 others, must comply, do not confer preferential treatment. Omnibuses are allowed on the inward and outward journey to stop near the north entrance and the amusement park, and from the south-west entrance to the Harrow Road is approximately 150 yards. Having regard to these facts, and the need for securing safety and preventing obstruction, it is not proposed to revise the regulations.