New-style carrier service plan for Borders
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A SPECIAL passenger and parcel carrier service running between local government and health offices has been proposed by the Borders Regional Council in a draft transport policy programme which is to go before the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Under the plan vans and estate cars would run on scheduled services within the region delivering mail, parcels, files, X-rays and urgent prescriptions. Each vehicle would have up to seven seats for public use and the routes would be planned along those roads without any other form of public transport. The report says the IN need at both Hawick and G. shiels is to remove cross-tc traffic flows from the tc centre especially those assoi ted with peak-hour travel work patterns. The to contres would also benefit fr the removal of through trai Serious problems of cong flan. restrictions to traffic flt and "vehicle-pedestrian 0 flicts " occur particularly in • larger town centres, and th, is a general lack of short-te parking space. It sugge there should be an exam ation of how money allocal toward3 subsidy of put transport might be spent achieve a better service.