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Ferry Rate Increase Approved By PUC*AUGUST A (AP — nue increase. The increase ef-Ferry rates to the Casco Bay fects passenger, freight, id slands will be increased as a automobile ferry service, esult of a decision by the Pub- Last March. CBL a.sked the ic Utilities Commission. PUC for a 62 per cent overallThe PUC said Thursday that revenue increase, and for an t has granted Casco Bay Lines emergency interim revenue and of Portland a 17 per cent revc- passenger revenue hike of 32 —.——— ——.— .per cent.c _ . I Tht PUC said its decision efW baco Zoning fects the interim rate requr t^ only and said it “may or may (Continued from I age One) nol ^ altered when action isspec tor differed from those taken on Ul(. general rate inpresented at the apjieals crease request.”hearing. increase is expected toThe board s formal motion. resuit in $46,490 in additionalpassed on a four-to-onc vote, revenuesacknowledged that ?.he building The PUC 4aifj the line must inspector was correct in nnw submit a new rate sched* denying a permit to place a uic, designed to increase rove* mobile home on a private iot nues by 17 pcr cent. It ordered in Saco. However, based on the that au ratcs be raised evenly plans presented at the hearing. acros,s thr present freight and the board determined that the fprrv schedules structure was a modular home cBL had originally asked and instructed Saco Mobile ^at the price of a one-way Homo Sales to apply to the ticket to Peaks Island, the rebuilding inspector for a permit commuter stop, be m ■ ito erect the modular home as from 55 to 80 cents. The PUCpresented. Rocver may still allowed the one-way ticket todeny the permit if the structure p(.aks Island, the major com-fails to meet the city's building mutcr stop, to be hiked f- 35code. , to 65 cents. The 10-ride com-In opposing the motion, muter ticket books will he inHawes questioned whether the creased from S3.75 to S4.40. intent of the law was being The puC also said it will ruleviolated. He noted that although by Sept. 6 on an application by the ordinance only prohibited Island Citizens Association the placement of mobile homes t0 be allowed to provide sepa with or without wheels on a rat€. competing service tc private lot. the removal of the Poat, islandundercarriage could be con ‘ 1__
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Biddeford Saco Journal
Biddeford, Maine, US
Fri, Aug 30, 1974
Page 3
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