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Holiday plans
NATIONAL Holidays Christmas holidays 1977 range includes three new destinations — Buxton, in the Peak District; Mickleton, in the Cotswolds, and Renfrew in Scotland. The inclusive holidays operate from London, East Anglia, Sussex, East Hampshire and Kent.
Protest stop
LONDON Transport crews at Stonebridge Park Garage staged an unofficial 24-hour stoppage, last week, in protest against increased assaults on bus crews.
Push-ups
INCREASES in passenger transport fares have helped push the Retail Price Index up 16.5 per cent from August 1976 to August 1977. The increase was attributed to price rises in a wide range of goods and to bus and train fare increases.
Merseyside PTE
MERSEYSIDE PTE has been hit by a strike by over 360 maintenance craftsmen over the introduction of a shop floor work study.
The dispute has brought 800 Merseyside PTE vehicles to a halt.
Glasgow curfew
GLASGOW busmen have imposed a curfew on city routes after attacks on busmen and they have banned schoolchildren from one route.
Greater Glasgow PTE director of industrial relations Joe Coyle told CM that the curfew was causing "considerable inconvenience" to passengers in the city.
"We had a meeting with the men; last week, and showed them the design for a new screen to be fitted to the buses. They have accepted it and now we are trying to get the screens fitted to the vehicles as soon as possible," he said.
The restrictions imposed by the men have included taking some routes halfway into certain areas only from Govan and Knightswood garages.
Mr Coyle said that the ban on schoolchildren was being operated for similar reasons.