Passengers take a back seat
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Unless the metropolitan counties toe the Government line on transport spending, they face the threat of a complete withdrawal of their transport support grants. And district councils are confronted by the danger of a loss of finance — in this case a smaller sum — as they fight to obtain the grant on new buses which they maintain they are entitled to.
It seems to us that the dispute involving district councils could have been prevented if there had been a clearly worded agreement in the first place. Now confusion spreads as differing legal opinions are taken.
While these squabbles go on, the lot of the passenger takes second place, although the aim was to help them through financial aid to operators. To see how we came to this dotty pass, read our psv reporter's account, "Municipal men get militant over grants," on page 24.