Passenger decline continues
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• The steady decline in the number of passengers carried by road passenger transport continued in 1967, although the number of stage passengers carried by London Transport central (red) buses showed a slight increase (1,760m compared with 1,753m in 1966) while passengers carried on contract services throughout Great Britain reached a new record figure of 382m (350m in 1966).
These facts are revealed in the Ministry of Transport report Passenger Transport in Great Britain 1967, now available from HM Stationery Office, price 1 Is 6d.
The total of p.s.v. owned on December 31 1967 was 74,647, a decline of 674 compared with 1966 when the decline was 966 vehicles. Overall decline since '1957 is 3,436 buses and coaches although the number of vehicles increased from 1960 (77,324) to a minor peak of 78,083 in 1962.
Passengers carried in 1967 totalled 10,616m, a drop of 412m compared with 1966, and 4,120m down on the 1957 figure of I4,736m passengers. Express services carried 77m passengers in 1967 compared with 79m in 1966 and 64m in 1957; the number has fluctuated in recent years but averaged about 77m between 1961 and 1967. However, contract services have shown a steady increase from the 272m passengers carried in 1957 to the 382m of 1967.