Govt hits the public
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TRADITIONAL Governmen policy of "trying to screw a much money as possible" out o public transport is self-defeat ing, according to a pape discussed last weekend by thl National Consumer Council.
According to South Wes Transport Users' Consultativ, Council chairman Malyn NewitI these policies are destroyin! public transport throughout th, country.
The paper criticised the oak.' of trying to make public trans port operate on a commercia basis, and contrasted the Unite, Kingdom's 30 per cent suppor for public transport with 55 to 71 per cent revenue support fron the Netherlands, Belgium, an French Governments.
The NCC said that, while typical shire county spends onl about ten per cent of its trans port budget on public transom and the rest on roads, and Om Government spends almos equally on roads and publi transport, only half of the adul population has driving licences and a quarter own a car.