No deregulation Private operators wishing to compete or expand their
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operations into the stage carriage sector should have more opportunity in future although no more liberalisation of road service licensing is planned.
Mrs Chalker said that both the 1983 Transport Act and the present London Regional Transport Bill had provisions to make it easier for private operators to compete and operate services on behalf of PTEs or LAT.
She said that she liked the flexibility of private operators and felt that they could often operate services at less cost.
She said that she likes the idea of route specific subsidy replacing network subsidy in the counties as this could make it possible for operators to tender to operate routes not viable without support.