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Subsidized Service— Poor Start A POOR start was made last week

18th September 1964
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

when the first of the special subsidized services introduced as part of the latest rural transport surveys ran with only four or five regular passengers.

A 35-seater bus is being used for the three-month experimental Period in the Louth area of Lincolnshire by the Lincolnshire .Road Car Co. Ltd. • Chairman of the working party which recommended the service, the Rev. P. H. Goodrich, said that despite the disappointingly small numbers using the service so far two principles had been accepted. First, that rural transport required subsidizing as a local service; second, that it might mean less orthodox methods of transport" than 35-seater buses.

L.T.B.'s Week-end Cuts

WINTER week-end schedules planned IT by the London Transport Board to come into force on October 24-25 mean considerable cuts. Passengers carried on ' Saturdays have fallen by 650,000 in a• year, so three of the Central red bus routes will be withdrawn, feta will be cut in part, and 68 routes will have reduced services; the Sunday fall of 400,000 passengers means four routes will be withdrawn, eight cut, and 50 services reduced.


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