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Strathclyde PTE safe says Younger

22nd December 1984
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FEARS that Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive would be destroyed by the Government's bus liberalisation plans have been dismissed by Scottish Secretary George Younger.

In an interview with The Glasgow Herald, Mr Younger said there was no doubt that SPTE would survive the changes planned for April 1986.

He said he had seen Strathclyde representatives towards the end of November, and added: "What they will do, I hope, is provide a more efficient bus service, with sharper competition between bus and rail.

"The people who will benefit are the general public, who will have a better service."

The impending deregulation of bus services, and parallel plans by the Scottish Bus Group for the creation of smaller, demand-responsive operating companies (three of them ringing Glasgow) gave rise to fears that SPTE would be at risk.

Its operations were highlighted in the buses White Paper as an example of a high subsidy, high fare organisation, and trades union sources suggested that as many as 1,000 jobs would be at risk.

It is understood that the Scottish Office will not insist on SPTE's being carved up into smaller units, as is planned for the English PTEs, but it is unlikely to give it any exemption from deregulation as Strathclyde councillors had demanded.

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Organisations: Scottish Office
People: George Younger
Locations: Glasgow

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