MP wants lower bus steps
16th August 1974, Page 18
16th August 1974
Page 18
Page 18, 16th August 1974
— MP wants lower bus steps
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Keywords :
Bus, Social Issues
MINISTER OF TRANSPORT Fred Mulley has been asked to introduce new regulations enforcing lower steps on bus entrances. Mr Neville Trotter, MP for Tynernouth, and a former chairman of Newcastle's transport committee, said this week that present bus steps were too high for many old and disabled people.
The plea comes only weeks after the publication of a joint Transport and Road Research Laboratory and British Leyland report on bus design for elderly and disabled people. It recommended a maximum bus step entry height of 178 mm (7in).