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Glasgow relieved?
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THE SCOTTISH Traffic Commissioners have granted major Glasgow area service revisions to two Scottish Bus Group companies in a move which could precede the final death of Strathclyde PTE's 51-year old monopoly of city services.
They have granted service revisions to Central SMT and Western SMT, giving Central routes which cross Glasgow from South-east to west, and involving fare-cuts for some Western services. All form part of the first ScotMAP market analysis programmes introduced by SBG.
In his judgment, Commissioners' chairman Hugh McNamara referred to the conflict between the liberalism of the 1980 Transport Act and the enforced co-ordination of the 1968 Act, and his judgment indicates that the liberalism of 1980 will achieve more co-ordination.
nation.
Reports from Glasgow suggest that Strathclyde and SBG 'may be moving towards a more co-operative existence, eight years after the PTE was supposed to have started a coordinating atmosphere, and this may be further hastened by reports that at least two independent concerns want to run new services in the city.
The Labour-controlled Glasgow District Council has already stated that it wants the monopoly to end, because of its loss of confidence in the PTE and its concern about the wasteful use of empty SBG vehicles.