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Edinburgh backs the bus
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• An interim report published in Edinburgh this week reveals that the city's planners favour drastic action to revitalize bus services. The report, compiled by a working party made up of representatives of the transport, planning and city engineers departments, was submitted to the planning committee on Wednesday. The working party was set up to consider a report by Prof Colin Buchanan on Edinburgh's future transport needs.
Mr Neil Townend, a member of the
working party and the transport department's assistant manager (traffic), told CM on Wednesday that the party supported Buchanan's emphasis on public transport. It recommended that the Corporation adopt the following measures: completion of a scheme aimed at reducing full-day on-street parking in the central area (due for completion next May); build a western busway — a buses-only road over the railway running from the west end of Princes Street towards the west and south
west suburbs; take early action on the plan for an outer city by-pass; implementation of bus priority measures particularly on the eastern end of Princes Street where a bus lane or contra-flow lane could be used; recommend the transport department to introduce more limited stop services (to this end 10 Duple Dominant-bodied Bedford YRTs to bus grant specification will be in service in September); and consider a bus priority scheme for the whole of Princes Street.
The working party will produce its final report, which will include detailed measures for implementing bus priorities, by the end of the year. The full Corporation is expected to reach a decision on what action to take on the Buchanan report in February next year.
Meanwhile, members of the city's transport, planning and highways committees this week saw a film made by Ford of Britain on the Dial-a-Ride concept of urban demand-responsive bus services. However, Mr Townend stressed that there was "no question of an early implementation" of this scheme. It was one of a number of possibilities being studied.