Glasgow a grey area
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E FINAL VESTIGES of Glasw's 50-year-old bus monoly will disappear on April 4, if t Scottish Traffic Commisners approve.
:rom that date, it is planned it Scottish Bus Group buses short to medium distance Res will carry local passeng
within the 1930 monopoly undary, which disappeared icially from February 1, and .athclyde PTE will extend a all group of its services into as which are served infreently by SBG. (CM, January
ks part of this scheme, Strathde plans to bring its fares Iles into line with SBG rates, :h higher charges being introced for long cross-city jourIs.
\tlast week's House of Corn)ns Scottish affairs committee. :eting (see this page), SBG airman Ian Irwin said that ire were "great expectations" it SBG would make a lot of rney on the Glasgow area ites, but said that this implied it someone else would lose )ney.
'We are going into an unown grey area," he told Dour MP John Maxton (Glasiiv Cathcart) who wondered lether SBG might be able to apart more rural services as a iult of its gaining new busi