BCC may go for railways
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• The Bus & Coach Council may have to cater for the railways as more bus companies take on the job of running urban light railways and trolleybus systems, says David Howard, director-general of Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Executive. He is one of the PTE bosses who resigned from the BCC last year (CM 25-31 May).
In the end Britain may have a general public transport body on the model of BOVA in West Germany, believes Howard, who has indicated that the group of PTEs are prepared to rejoin the BCC. "This is something we would have to sit down and talk about at length," says BCC director-general Veronica Palmer. "1 don't think it will happen in the near future, but the size and shape of our industry is changing so fast that nothing can be ruled out."