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inistry's Compensation for M6 Disruption
WALSALL Town Council has agreed VW to accept £15,000 from the Ministry of Transport. in full settlement of the authority's claim for interference with the Walsall-to-Wolverhampton trolleybus service by the construction of the M6 motorway. The council also acceptedquotations of 136.968 and £31.010 respectively for the supply of 10 bus bodies and 10 modified chassis. Eight of the diesel buses will be used on the WalsallWillenhall-Wolverhampton route, the other two being employed elsewhere. A transport committee report said that 2 as a result of Wolverhampton Corporation's decision to replace trolleybuses with motorbuses the undertaking had planned to discontinue the use of trolleybuses on the Walsail-Willenhall-Wolverhampton route, replacing them with motorbuses. It was planned to effect the change in 1967. As a result of the construction of M6, however, the existing trolleybus equipment on the route would be disturbed in December this year. The Ministry had been informed that the committee would be willing to bring forward the date for the operation of the motorbus service on the route to October —if the Ministry, would make payment against additional cost that would be incurred during the two years in question. The f15,000 compensation has been assessed on the basis of two years' loan charges for eight motorbuses, but takes account' also of additional running costs and decreased maintenance costs, Objection to Bus Plan: Stockton-on-Tees Corporation is objecting to a proposal by the Durham County planning department which would remove bus traffic from the town's High Street, a main shopping thormiehfa re