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1E Scottish Bus Group is claiming a huge subsidy of £707,000 r 1979, nearly double this year's.
Tayside Regional Council transport committee heard last !ek that this claim is 86 per cent up on this year's grant of 30,000.
[he director of the transport b-committee, A. R. West41, said he would present a tailed report on the implicains of the claim for the 79/80 financial year.
in particular, the director id, he wanted to find what ape there was for economies operation and the effect of lolesale withdrawals of sere.
Alexander Ferguson said it .emed to him that the Regio1 Council's losses on trans.rt and the amount being ked by the Scottish Bus .oup were more or less the me. He asked Mr Westwell if thought he could run the ral services.
Mr Westwell said the cost of .nventional bus travel now is very high, and the difrence between income and penditure far greater. The ason for the increased deid for subsidy was that a rking party report had anged the method of costing bus operations.
In the past, these had been worked on an average cost. per mile, but the working party had concentrated on the costs of particular routes. As a result, some other regions had gained, and their subsidy had been reduced. "The increase has surged into Tayside," said Mr Westwell.