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10th November 1978
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

CURTAILMENT of local I services on country row leaving villages with adequate transport service cited as a cause of the dee]: of rural Britain by t Association of District Col cils in a report entitled Ru recovery: strategy for survi) The report calls for t maintenance and itnpro, ment of public transport fa. ities to secure a proper leve access for rural areas at r sonable cost.

It claims that in rural N folk 45 per cent of elde households and about 50 cent of the 17-25 age grc have no car. In central Norf only 35 of the 108 parisl have a journey-to-work service.

Self-help schemes such social car schemes and sub. ised mini-buses are mentio/ in the report, which generz reflects the ADC's concl over the decline of all aspe of life in the rural areas England and Wales.

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