STILL NO DECISION ON RURAL TRANSPORT
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From our Political Correspondent
THE results of the Governmentsponsored rurak bus service experiments in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Westmorland and Montgomeryshire are due to be published by the Ministry of Transport in the next few days..
Their publication will be the latest chapter in a saga dating back to the Jack _Report of 1961. when subsidies were recom me n de d. Unfortunately, whatever is shown by the latest results, it is not likely that national action will be taken yet, Mr. Marples set Up these latest experiments after a series of studies (and talks with operators and local councils} had revealed onlv differing views as to the solution of the rural bus problem.
Most of I ha experiments lasted about
three months, and one of the ideas which is noderstood ti r have proved fairly useful is the carrying of ordinary passengers on school contract buses. If this idea is adopted, there will have to be adjustments. made to the licensing provisions.
The Transport Minister will probably make a statement when this latest report is issued. But comprehensive proposals on the rural bus problem are expected to hang fire until the Government's coordination plans are 'presented later this year, or early in 1966.
Taking 17s. a Day: Last week Northallerton R.D.C. decided to raise no objection to the withdrawal of a bus service from I nglehy to the Siltons and Kepwick. They were told that the service, by H. Atkinson and Sons (Ingleby) Ltd., was taking only 17s. a day,