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'Universal hostility' to PTAs

10th November 1967
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FIVE reasons why PTA proposals will be greeted with "universal hostility" were stated on Tuesday night by Mr. Michael Heseltine, one of the Tories who will lead the fight against the Transport Bill. In visits to PTA-designated areas, he said, the following objections had been put time and again by councillors, bus managers, traffic experts and ratepayers:— Many local authorities have not been consulted, and the Minister appears to be ignoring the advice of those who have. Taking buses out of private and municipal ownership is regarded as irrelevant to service problems, and likely to raise costs and cut quality. The Minister's PTA nominee powers are deeply resented. The transfer of local rail losses to the ratepayer is regarded as a sop to the Chancellor over soaring deficits. Ministerial inability to quote likely costs to ratepayers is causing deep suspicion; and financing public travel from rates is felt to be wrong.

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