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• Church representatives of eight denominations have approached the Glasgow PTA with a demand for free and improved public transport. The Rev James Mack, secretary of an inter-church industrial committee, asked the PTA to give urgent consideration to improving services without increasing fares. Only the abolition of fares would ensure increased personal mobility for employment, shopping and leisure for the majority of the citizens of Glasgow.
Mr Mack suggested the establishment of a body of experts in transport and social matters to comment regularly on the planning policies of central government or local authorities.
Mr William Murray, deputy director-general of the Glasgow PTA, said that free transport would require i13m a year from "community sources".