Integration for Welsh services but no PTA
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• Mr Peter Thomas, the Secretary for Wales, has given the go-ahead for the integration of bus services in south-east Wales.
But, he told -MPs last week, the establishment of a passenger transport authority would not be the solution to the public transport problems of the area.
The idea of a PTA had been rejected by the Passenger Transport Co-ordinating Committee for Wales and, said Mr Thomas, he accepted this advice. The Minister noted that the Committee had recommended that consideration should be given to the integration of municipally owned buses with the National Bus Company. As a first step, he was drawing the attention of the municipal undertakings and the NBC to this recommendation, with a request that they should report to him in due course the outcome of any action they decided to take to effect integration of services in south-east Wales.