Stability call
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BUSMEN want the next Govan ment to be more generous wit financial support for the indur try and for a less partisan ar proach to be taken to transpol policy, writes ALAN MILLAR.
A Bus and Coach Counc spokesman said the industry' main shopping list for the wir nor of the June 9 election woul be topped by a request for som form of capital grant to be intrc duced in place of new-bus grar which disappears finally i March next year.
The BCC is maintaining it pressure for fuel tax rebate to b extended from stage carriag, operation to all bus and coacl activities.
The spokesman added that th, industry needs stability mor, than anything else and it hope the next Government will adop a non-party political nationa transport policy.
Transport 2000, the publi, transport pressure group, alst supports low fares policies, am its director, Nick Lester, told CA he hopes the next Governmen will accept that it is reasonabll for higher levels of revenuo support to be made available tc local transport.
He said this could either corm from rates funds or from othe commercial activities such a: property development.