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16th March 1973, Page 58
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Angus Munro

• As the new director of planning for the SELNEC PTE, Mr Angus Munro is a man presented with — and capable of meeting — a real challenge. For the Executive's plans to integrate existing bus and rail services in the Greater Manchester area are, to say the least, impressive.

These plans are spread over a number of years and will involve Angus Munro in such undertakings as the construction of a new central Mancunian underground rail system, the introduction of pedestrian conveyors, the opening of 15 bus-priority routes and the introduction of "bus corridors" for rapid transit operation.

Despite the immensity of the proposals Angus Munro feels that the main problems which the PTE has still to overcome are much nearer to home. One such problem is that of "run-down services", especially rail services, which in many cases are inadequate even in normal times. The Executive, he says, must never forget that its primary function is to offer the public a local service within its wider activities.

Angus Munro is of Scottish ancestry and started his business career in Civil engineering. He was for 10 years involved in highway design and transportation trends. But a he progressed from highway design work to longterm trends in planning, he realized that for many years public transport undertakings had given little thought to environmental planning — now one of his major concerns.

His views on the new experimental bus-only lane along Oxford Road, Manchester, are as one would expect. He believes that motorists are to a certain extent justified in claiming they have been inconvenienced by the new lane but points out that it is a case of "a minority being slightly inconvenienced for the sake of the majority".

With an average working day of around 12 hours and quite a lot of ancillary activities besides, he finds he is left with little spare time for hobbies or pastimes. Any spare time he gets is devoted to his three children and a quiet game of bridge which he says he enjoys as much as a round of golf.

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Locations: Manchester

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