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NATIONAL Bus Company operations within the Metropolitan Counties should be transferred to the PTEs, says Tyne of Wear PTE.
"The present situation of split control adds an unnecessary obstacle to the main objective of implementing a fully integrated network of services," it says.
The lack of investment in local public transport outside London for the past 50 years is deplored. "In the rest of Eui ope the need for public tram port investment has Ion been recognised as an esser tial means of supporting th commercial and industrial an social fabric of towns an cities."
Construction of urba roads, city car parkin facilities and rail subsidie should stop. Capital invest ment should be in bus priot ities and new vehicles.