New PTAs for Lancs urged
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PASSENGER Transport Authorities for north-east Lancashire, central Lanes new town and Lancaster, and the Fylde Coast and Blackpool, were needed to ensure integrated services. This was said last week by Cllr. Jim Mason addressing the country council's highways committee. He said that transport services in rural areas of the county were "completely inadequate" with too many bus undertakings, no integration between bus and rail and too much duplication over the same routes.
Cllr. Mason said that free transport in towns and minibuses in rural areas might be the answer. Cllr. George Woods, chairman of the highways committee, said one obstacle to these ideas was the Traffic Commissioners. Until someone at Westminster got rid of them the County Council was going to find it difficult to get a transport policy which worked.