PTAs municipal operators in danger
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• The Ministry of Transport has now released a full list of local authorities which have been approached informally for their views on the areas which the first four proposed Passenger Transport Authorities might cover (CM, April 26). There are two separate lists.
List "A" is of the local authorities where, to quote from the circular letter sent to clerks of councils concerned, "assuming there is to be a PTA, the balance of advantage appears at first sight to be in favour of their inclusion". List "B" includes "a number of other areas, each of which has sufficiently important passenger transport links with the main built-up area for it to be argued that they ought to be included— although in these cases the balance of advantage is more even".
Municipal passenger transport operators in danger of losing their undertakings under the PTA plans are as follows: Tyneside, list "A": Newcastle and Sduth Shields. List "B": Sunderland.
Greater Manchester, list "A": Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Salford, Ashton-under-Lyne and SHMD Board. List "B": Ramsbottom.
West Midlands, list "A": Birmingham, Walsall, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton. List "Ii": nil.
Merseyside, list "A": Liverpool, Birken
head and Wallasey. List "B": Southport and Widnes. List "B" for Merseyside also includes Runcorn urban district, the site of a new Town where a rapid transit bus service is to be introduced by Crosville Motor Services Ltd., employing specially designed o-m-o single-deck buses.