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Fastf are stillborn as dispute continues
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GREATER Glasgow PTE's plans for a no-change fares collection system are ging hindered by a demarcation dispute among the undertaking's engineering staff. This follows a damaging strike last year which cost £1.3m.
The PTE hoped to meet drivers' demands for a fares collection system which deterred robbery by fitting Almex E ticket machines and sealed cash vaults to its buses throughout this year.
Named Fastfare, the system was to be given widespread publicity, but the current dispute means that the equipment delivered so far is lying in store.
Several services have been converted recently to one-man operation, but using conventional ticket machines and loose cash-trays. Full one-man operation is still the undertaking's aim for 1980.
Greater Glasgow's major overhaul programme — around one year ahead of a schedule — has also fallen victim of the mechanics' dispute, as a backlog of other repair work is taking precedence.
But director of operations Neil Townend denied this week that special tools bought at the mechanics' request were not being used. Reports had suggested that several thousand pounds had been spent on unused equipment.
In the meantime, Strathclyde Regional Council has begun moves to pay GGPTE Elm to help meet the strikeinduced loss.
Finance committee chairman Ken Paterson told councillors that the withdrawal of services last year cost £1.08m, and added that other staff were still paid during this period.
The full council has still to approve the payment, which comes against a background of a further cut in scheduled services in two month's time.