Life in the old bus yet
15th December 1979, Page 34
15th December 1979
Page 34
Page 34, 15th December 1979
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CHANGES in shopping habit and buying in bulk have killed, or at best are killing, the bus as the shopper's means of transport, says the Chartered Institute of Transport's Journal. The general experience of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive is the opposite.
A survery has shown that 65 per cent of shoppers use public transport to go to Birmingham city centre and contribute 56 per cent of retail turnover. The percentage of shoppers travelling by bus to Coventry city centre is 54, to Wolverhampton 53 and to Walsall, Dudley and West Bromwich shopping centre, 51.
Only in Solihull, Sutton Coldfield and Stourbridge do more shoppers go by car than by bus. A snooty lot, they are.