Edinburgh OAPs to get free buses
22nd June 1973, Page 32
22nd June 1973
Page 32
Page 32, 22nd June 1973
— Edinburgh OAPs to get free buses
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• First steps towards providing free bus travel for old-age-pensioners in Edinburgh have been taken by the city's finance committee. It has approved the idea in principle and asked for realistic costing and a method of financing the scheme. A councillor who moved a motion approving the scheme said he did not accept an estimate by the transport manager that the scheme would cost more than £3m a year.
A proposal to reorganize the city's bus fare structure on a 4p and 8p flat-fare basis was deferred until a report on the subject had been prepared. The scheme would incur an estimated annual deficit of £153,000.
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