Glasgow system beats congestion
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GLASGOW CITY TRANSPORT is installing radio-telephones on its buses on an extensive scale.
Storno radio-telephones have been installed in about 150 of the undertaking's modern Leyland Atlantean double-deckers. The telephones are intended primarily for reporting incidents along the route such as traffic queues, congestion, breakdowns, and so on. Radio-equipped buses are allocated to each garage, which, in turn, allocates the buses so that radio-equipped buses are operating on all major routes. The drivers report incidents to a duty officer at Glasgow's hq, and this position is manned 24 hours a day. With some 40 per cent of its services on one-man operation, mostly employing double-deckers, the undertaking is concentrating on the equipment of such buses with radios. The installation of a further 100 radio-telephones — again of Storno make — is planned during the next 1+ years. An incidental advantage of the radio-equipped buses has been a large decrease in violence on late night journeys in Glasgow. Potential vandals are deterred by the aerial mounted on the front domes of
the vehicles. D.M.