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• A three-year deadlock over bus charges at Banbury bus

15th November 1968
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

station has been broken. The Ministry of Transport has fixed a rate of 4d for every bus departing from the station, ba:-:kdated from April 1965. The local council had sought a charge of 6.1ci while Midland Red —the principal local operator--was only prepared to pay 3d per departure.

The company's dispute with the council has been going on since April 1965, when The station was first opened. The Minister of Transport had noted that no charge would fail on the bus operators for the cost of providing toilets, an inquiry office and a cafe, and that the council had recognized the amenity value of the bus station, by arranging for only 50 per cent of the estimated annual post of the bus station to be borne by charges falling on the bus companies. He also took into account the effect of the annual cost of the bus station on the financial resources of the councii.

• Darlington Corporation transport cornmitto to order another 12 one-man buses for delrvery early in 1970. The committee has 12 buses of this type in use, and 12 more (Daimler Roadliners with Roe dual entrance bodies) on ord6r.

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