Transport measure defended at Dundee
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• Dundee Corporation Transport's financial crisis — with operating losses of £1000 a day—remained unsolved on April 20 after the defeat of remedial measures drawn up the council's Labour group. These included rate subsidies and a radical reduction of private cars in the city centre.
Labour's controversial plan, revealed to the transport committee a week before, was the subject of a special corporation meeting called by the Progressive opposition.
Because two Labour councillors were absent and an Independent councillor abstained, the Right-wing group Manage( on the casting vote of Lord Provost W. K Fitzgerald to have the administration': proposals rejected.
During the debate, however, severa Labour speakers accused the Progressive: of deliberately timing the meeting u coincide with the week when one Labou councillor was in hospital for an operation.
These claims were strongly denied by thl secretary of the Progressive group, Cll Nigel Law, who stressed the urgency o solving the crisis which involved a £353,001 annual deficit in the transport accounts. Th meeting was adjourned.