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appearing bus grant
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LES ARE bound to go up b s grant disappears in a cording to Leicester ransport General iage Geoffrey Hilditch. 3ea mg in Coventry this k, h said three possibilfac the industry.
xis ng vehicles could be le to last longer, but I shudat he thought of some 3s in y current fleet doing ," he said.
?rvic s could be cut back, in L cester where traffic is wing this is unacceptable. Cher is no other altern ative but for fares to go up."
Mr Hiditch added that the most sophisticated doubledeck buses available in 1967 cost £7000 each. Today new generation double-deckers cost £53,000.
He predicted that some operators will experience serious financial problems after 1983.
"By then we'll need buses which literally never wear out. Some operators will need flag days on four Saturdays a year to buy new buses," he added.