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S.R.P.T.A. Urges Fuel Tax Cut THE Scottish Road Passenger Trans'

22nd February 1963
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port Association held a press conference in Edinburgh last week to draw attention to the high incidence of taxation on the industry. Mr. Thomas Gray, president of the S.R.P.T.A. and deputy city transport manager, said that members of the Association were paying £3,616,700 in fuel tax every year and £277,022 in excise and licence duty.

Since 1950 there had been a consistent cut in passengers using their services, despite which taxation had increased.

Buses Need Priorities

TRAFFIC tended to concentrate itself 1 more and more into the peak periods and all efforts to persuade schools or industries to stagger working hours had proved unsuccessful, said Mr. Raymond Birch. chairman. speaking at the Diamond Jubilee Luncheon of the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co. Ltd., at Dewsbury Town Hall on Monday.

He believed that the country was at last coming to realize that some preference must be given to the bus in order that cities should not be strangled by the number of private cars.

Increased costs were being forced upon operators, said Maj. F. S. Eastwood, chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners. Unless buses were to be subsidized by the Government this rise would have to be passed to the public.


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