Liverpool recoups
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• Following the 11-week strike of its municipal busmen, Liverpool Corporation transport department has found that friendly relations exist with the travelling public and the drop in revenue as compared with calculated estimates is now down to 10/15 per cent from the 22 per cent reduction experienced immediately after the stoppage. It is expected that the permanent passenger loss will level out at this percentage.
The department is still operating on emergency schedules with a 14 per cent reduction in mileage. Certain routes were withdrawn and frequencies reduced on others to meet the shortage of personnel. A total of 579 drivers and conductors as still required to reach the 3,250 men need for a full complement to run these services On the first day of the strike 3,141 we employed.
The first 10 of Liverpool's one-ma single-deckers were introduced at th beginning of this month and 25 more w go into service on another two routes o September 3, with a further two service being converted a fortnight later, to tak advantage of the 25 per cent grant promis in the Transport Bill for purchases of buse approved for one-man operation afte September 1. A total of 135 Leylan Panthers to accommodate 47 seated an 24 standing passengers has been order by the department.