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DESPITE being faced with a r duction in rate support gra and voting to cut spending 1 £15.2m, Lothian Regional Cou cil's controlling Labour grot has no plans at present to i crease bus fares on its Edi burgh bus fleet.
Edinburgh fares were last p up in 1976 and the present nc mal fares vary between 5p ai 20p.
The Council had budget( £3.6m for reducing bus fares r Scottish Bus Group services Lothian which Scottish Secr tary George Younger has barn the company from acceptir Likely affects on SBG services the Region are not known at pr sent.
A proposed £250,000 bus s1 tion development in the Regil has also been postponed, 1 gether with £150,000 earmark for transport research and c velopment.