Govt caution on rural buses
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A MODEST relaxation of licensing and a couple of experiments did not amount to an adequate response to the urgent situation facing rural transport, claimed Opposition transport spokesman Mr Norman Fowler, in the Commons last week.
He urged the Government to and disadvantages had to be make speedier progress, but Dr weighed very carefully.
Gilbert, the Minister for TransDr Gilbert told MPs that a port, retorted that he had no first meeting of the commission intention of dismantling the dealing with the planned public service licensing system experimental bus services was overnight merely to suit some being arranged.
of the doctrinaire prejudices The commission would con of Mr Fowler. sider the terms of the Bill More serious which the Government was The matter was much more hoping to introduce "as soon as serious than that, said the may be."
Minister, adding that nothing He recalled that the intention had been done when the Tories was to have three or four areas were in power, though they in which experiments would were now claiming that they take place. That would relate wanted dramatic changes overto the relaxation of present night, licensing arrangements but This was a matter that had to there was a need for safeguards be approached with considerfor those who worked in the able caution—the advantages industry, and for public safety.