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education Irwin
'ERATORS must educate both public and Government about the my advantages to be gained from an efficiently organised and tII-supported bus and coach system.
So said Confederation of itish Road Passenger Transrt president Ian Irwin at the nual conference in Edinburgh, ports NOEL MILLIER.
He said that the strength of the is and coach industry lies in its fety and energy efficiency. In a ,e-year average from 1975 to at year, travelling by bus and
■ ach was seven times safer an by car.
The bus and coach with a pical load is eight times more iergy efficient than a car at iak times and has the added bonus of using a lot less road and parking space in towns yet, said Mr Irwin, the bus and coach industry is walking a tightrope for survival.
Between 1975 and 1978, financial support for services dropped by 30 per cent and with further cuts and phasing-out of new bus grant, present policies — without inflation — will result in a massive 45 per cent real cut in spending on bus services by 1984 and this, Mr Irwin continued, at a time when the industry had never needed it more.
While the psv industry is