• In the latest round in the battle for control
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of Glasgow's city centre bus routes, Strathclyde Buses has referred its number one competitor — Scottish Bus Group — to the Office of Fair Trading to try and get it to cut some of its services.
If successful, the move could result in the Government having to step into the row and order SBG to take some of its buses off the road. Glasgow solicitor George Moore, acting for Strathclyde, says that the director of Fair Trading has been asked to consider whether the scale and use of the enormous advantages retained by SBG, is a matter for action.
Moore also wants to know "whether it amounts to abuse of a dominant position to restrict and eventually remove competition."
lithe Office of Fair Trading upholds the com plaint, its director could ask the SBG to cut its services voluntarily. If it refused, the matter would be
passed to the Monopolies Commission, arid then to the Government.
The Department of Transport would then have the power to order the company to obey any restrictions. Meanwhile, a public inquiry by Scottish Traffic Commissioner Hugh McNamara, into chaos after deregulation started.