Glasgow PTE area under review
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THE present designated area of the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Authority will be reviewed with Strathclyde Regional Council when travel to work information becomes available from the 1 971 Census in a few months' time.
Stating this in the Commons, Mr Bruce Milian, Minister of State at the Scottish Office, added that the Government would seriously consider any propositions put up by the Regional Council which involved central action.
Dr J. Dickson Mabon (Labour, Greenock and Port Glasgow) said that there was considerable dissatisfaction in his constituency and indeed all the lower reaches of the Clyde at the present inadequate public transport system.
If the Scottish Secretary did not, by extending the designated area, bring them all within the Passenger Transport Authority, what would be the position if Inverclyde District Council was asked to operate the bus services in that area?
Mr Milian replied that he would have to wait until he saw what any proposal involved. But this was a matter which would have to be discussed in the first instance with the Scottish Bus Group, which was responsible for bus services in the area.