Cardiff — buses in, cars out
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A. MAJOR bus scheme with a flat-rate 2p fare to encourage aar commuters to transfer to public transport started in Cardiff this week.
The new six-minute fre4uency centre-link service is ;sing five Leyland Nationalsind financed by South Glamorgan County Council who have ;et aside £80,000 to cover operating costs for the first rear. Revenue brought in from :he buses—estimated at EI0,000 per year—will be deducted from this.
Continued operation of the service is subject to review before the period is up.
The service will be operated by Cardiff City Transport, whose deputy general manager VIr Ian Trevette told CM this week that the County Council ould also pay for abstraction From the city's existing stage services—on which a fare of 7p per zone is charged.
The centre-link service will link the rail and bus stations with the Cathays business district in which the Welsh office, University, City Hall and Law Courts are situated.
Over the next few months 3,000 long-term on-street parking places will disappear in an attempt to decrease the traffic congestion which has strangled Cardiff in the past and encouraged people on to the buses.
The service will operate from 7.30 am to 10.30 am and from 3 pm to 6.30 pm at sixminute intervals in each direction.
After an intensive three-day advertising and publicity campaign at the stations the "centre-link" buses were lightly used on Monday but filled up during the week. •