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• The law should be altered so that local authorities and Passenger Transport Authorities can be forced to think more in terms of public passenger transport, suggested a former junior transport minister last week.
This idea was put forward in the Commons by Mr Neil Carmichael (Labour, Woodside) who noted that the Transport Act 1968 — which became law while he was Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport — gave the Government considerable power to influence developments in urban transport. This included, in particular, the shifting of the balance of investment from private transport to public passenger transport. The Act had been, he believed, a big breakthrough, but perhaps enough had been learned now to update it.
Mr Carmichael, whose constituency is in Glasgow, was speaking during discussion of the Greater Glasgow Transport Study in which Mr George Younger, UnderSecretary for Development at the Scottish Office, recalled that the Corporation had expressed strong support for the early implementation of the transport recommendations.
But these were early days for the Glasgow PTA, said Mr Younger, and he very much hoped that it would be giving thought to public passenger transport.