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Metro info
TYNE AND WEAR Passenger Transport Authority has published Meet your Metro, which spotlights the future role of the combined bus and Metro service in 1979.
MAN for UK?
MAN, the German bus and lorry manufacturer, is considering marketing its bus and coach chassis in Britain. A firm announcement of its intentions is expected in the next few weeks.
Shake-up
DRASTIC reorganisation of bus services in Angus, Fife, is to be introduced by W. Alexander & Sons (Northern) Ltd. In 1976, the company's Angus coastal routes lost £70,000. The changes are designed to improve services by timetabling buses at regular intervals during the day.
Transport advice
ADVICE to local authorities on local transport — for the Secretaries of State for Transport and for Wales — is to come in a new series of informal publications. Entitled Local Transport Notes, the first of them contains the results of surveys of concessionary bus fares for the elderly, blind and disabled in England and Wales.
Transport seminar
LOCAL transport co-ordination is the subject of a one-day seminar to be held • at the University of London Extra-Mural Centre on Saturday, October 29. Organised by the University Transport Studies Society, papers are to be presented by David Royle of the Department of Transport, Donald Awdas, of Devon County Council, and Geoffrey Hi!ditch, of Leicester City Transport.
No coaches
CARRICK District Council has closed its Windsor Quarry coach parking facility in Falmouth, Cornwall.