BUS STOP

24th September 1976, Page 100

24th September 1976

Page 100

Page 100, 24th September 1976 — BUS STOP

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Perth take-over

TAYSIDE Regional Council wishes to take over Perth town services from the Scottish Bus Group and run them as a separate unit as in Dundee. This has just been disclosed by Councillor James Scott, convenor of the Tayside roads and transport committee.

Of Perth and Kinross District he said: "We have had to be prepared to do a bit of subsidising to ensure that people in rural areas have adequate transport."

A report, now being prepared, would outline options and experimental measures such as minibus services.

Italian job

REGULAR through services to Ancona, Italy, via Milan, Venice and Rimini have been applied for by Wallace Arnold. The same company has also applied for authorisation to run to Brindisi and Copenhagen. These two would be "closed-door" services conveying passengers only between London and Brindisi and London and Copenhagen.

Wallace Arnold will operate the services itself apart from that to Ancona which will be operated jointly with Autostradale — an associate company of SITA.

'Playing politics'

EDINBURGH busmen intend to object before the Scottish Traffic Commissions to an application by Lothian Regional Transport to increase Edinburgh bus fares and reduce services.

Union leader Terry Weir claimed that councillors "playing politics" with bus services was the main reason for the financial plight of the regional transport undertaking.

Mr Weir said that over the years, for political reasons, councillors had insisted on services in their wards being extended. These loss-makers had to be carried by the department.