Magic box on PTA for Teeside buses Forth area?
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• At a meeting of the Teesside Council's lighways and transport committee last week members approved an experiment — ;aid to be the first in the country — 'hereby some of the Corporation's buses vill be fitted with a "magic box" which will )perate certain traffic lights in their favour.
Mr J. W. Radcliffe, the borough engineer, aid that a small battery:operated box fixed D the vehicle would send out an impulse to le light control equipment causing the reen light at an intersection to be extended y approximately two seconds to allow the us through — or the green light could be rought on two or three seconds earlier to It down the length of time the bus was :Id up at the lights.
The scheme is estimated to cost some 5000, with the DoE contributing 75 per mt. • Edinburgh Corporation's transport committee is trying to organize a conference in order to gain support for the formation of a Passenger Transport Authority for the Forth area.
Midlothian, East and West Lothian and Fife county councils, together with Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline town councils, have been invited to attend. If support is forthcoming at the conference an approach will be made to the Secretary of State for Scotland to try to get Government support.