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BUS AND RAIL services b tween Dundee and Carnoust have been co-ordinated under major reorganisation carried oi by Tayside Regional Council.
Overlapping Tayside an Alexander (Northern) bus SE vices were replaced by a joint operated route pattern on Se tember 7, and fares on Brith Rail's Dundee-Arbroath servii were brought into line at ti same time.
Marketed as Tayway, the se vice changes take account ScotMAP information gather( by Alexander (Northern), and series of four-week multi-jou ney tickets — Tayride and Ta coaster — has been launched fi between £14 and £20.
According to Tayside, tt main aim of the changes, whir follow months of consultatic after its own plans for extend( services ran into stiff oppositio is to make better use of existir resources and generate mo traffic. It will be some time b fore it knows whether ar vehicle saving will result.
Northern has bought a fleet second-hand Western Shi Fleetline double-deckers to wo its share of the new routes, ar they are fitted with.air-operat( Setright ticket machines and f reboxes to keep in line with Ta side's no-change Autofa equipment.