General scheme of the Transport Bill

20th September 1968, Page 219

20th September 1968

Page 219

Page 219, 20th September 1968 — General scheme of the Transport Bill

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5.13 The general scheme of the Bill is to:—

(a) provide for the establishment of Passenger Transport Authorities to secure the provision of a properly integrated and efficient system of public passenger transport to meet local needs; they are primarily intended to cover major conurbations (initially four in England and Wales) and their objectives will be achieved through Passenger Transport Executives; (b) establish a National Bus Company which will take over all the shares in the Tilling and BET bus companies; these are at present wholly-owned subsidiaries of THC; there are over 50 principal companies (plus sub-subsidiaries) and they own over 20,000 buses.; (c) establish a Scottish Transport Group (STG) to which the THC interests in the Scottish Bus Group and MacBraynes will be transferred.

5.14 There are thus three different forms of passenger co-ordination or integration:—

(a) the first involves links between bus and rail services within a conurbation area without necessarily involving any change of ownership except in the case of municipal undertakings;

(b) the second brings together within one body (the NBC) all the bus companies in England and Wales at present owned by the THC; the interests which BR at present has in Sheffield, Halifax, Huddersfield and Todmorden under Section 4 (4) of the 1962 Act will also pass to the NBC;