Merthyr resists cuts
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Also thrown out were plans to im down the 33-member transDrt committee of the Welsh )uncil.
The recommendations — )me of 41 made in a £12,000 )nsultants' study — was des'ed at the Association of istrict Councils' managers' leeting in Cardiff last week.
With a total deficit of £517,000 i 1981/82, the loss per vehicle at lerthyr was £8,214 — the highst amongst municipals, said lartin and Vorhees's Andrew ast. Non-statutory school transoil provision was "too great" tith 28 of the 52 vehicles in serice at 4pm committed to school ervices.
The six-month study recomlended efficiency improve-lents, a review of certain exensive policy objectives and Toad improvements in decision
Revised services for schoolhildren travelling very short listances could save £65,000, Ind marginally affect 150 pupils. urther route structure changes eying a net £67,0 0 0, and Iffecting 120 passengers per lay, would mostly mean only hort extra working distances, aid Mr Last.
Merthyr transport officer Glyn Bowen said the council had already decided that "no child now enjoying school transport should be deprived of this in future" and had rejected proposals for standing passengers on school vehicles.
Proposals for double-deck, one-man operation experiments had been authorised but an exLondon Transport Fleetline had been blacked. While a rate for double-deck o-m-o was now being negotiated, the undertaking's capital allocation for new buses has been cancelled in favour of other election-year projects, leaving no new vehicles to implement such a scheme.
Mr Bowen said agreement in principle had been obtained for improving bus services from Merthyr to Cardiff, despite some concern and conflict with the existing BR service.