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PT (Confederation of British oad Passenger Transport) ce-president Ron Whittle iterated that the organisam considers the new Transnt Bill a threat to rural bus id coach services and could DLate large areas of Britain. Speaking at the annual din in London of the Coach id Independent Bus Section • CPT, he outlined the partiliar provisions in the Bill that felt would have a deimental effect.
He thought that with the )en invitation to provide new rvices, operators would have concentrate on those which ere most economic.
Mr Whittle considered the )erators would prune their arginal or loss-making )utes, and rural bus and )ach services could well disTear as a result.
Operators would not take rer routes abandoned by the rge companies nor try to run Ises between sparsely )pulated hamlets where their :rvices dould never show a !asonable return.
The Transport Bill would at stroke give the operating dustry its largest opporinity, challenge and danger r many years.