Edinburgh crews may hull vandar night buses
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BUS crews in Edinburgh may halt night services at weekends because of increased attacks on them. A special meeting of the local busmen's branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union was called to consider an upsurge in assaults on crews.
They proposed that buses should not be operated in the late parts of Friday and Saturday nights, but that crews should run them into depots before the danger period for assaults was reached — just before pub closing times and afterwards.
Mr A. G. Weir, union branch official, . said that a special meeting of the branch committee would be held to consider the situation and the proposals from the former branch meeting.
The busmen are alarmed at the fact that assaults on crews are occurring now on routes in the city previously regarded as trouble free. Some of the attacks have taken place in day-time.
Conferences on the question of bus violence have been held in the city frequently over recent years involving the union, transport department management and police. More than half the city's buses are now equipped with radio link to transport headquarters.
Special mobile patrols by the transport department to combat bus violence are still operating. Plain-clothes policemen travel on known trouble routes. Recently there was a special meeting of busmen's representatives with the magistrates on this problem.