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MAround 15,000 bus services have been registered as commercial under the Government's plans to deregulate the industry. Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley denied in the Commons that this number is way below even pessimistic forecasts. Shadow Minister Bob Hughes said that in some areas the number of registrations is only 20 per cent of the number anticipated.
MOnly one National Bus Company South Wales Transport has advanced plans for management buy out as the NBC seeks to stimulate private sector interest with a nationwide advertising campaign, reports the Western Mail, March 27.
MA new version of its Vanguard single-deck bus body will be launched by Wadham Stringer Coachbuilders at the British Coach Rally on April 19/20, MCircular bus routes in Sheffield and Rotherham, early morning services and buses to outlying villages all face the axe in South Yorkshire unless cash can be found to subsidise them, reports the Yorkshire Post, March 29. County transport chiefs have had to tell the Traffic Commissioners which routes they consider economical and wish to continue after deregulated services in October. "But up to 1,600 transport jobs will almost certainly be axed."
• Westminer City Council is considering increasing the number of on-street parking places and controlling them with a prebookable coachcard for use in pay and display apparatus at the roadside.
Three sites have been pinpointed as London coach terminals to replace Victoria in the early Nineties. They are Kings Cross Freightliner terminal, Paddington station goods yard and Uxbridge Road depot, White City.