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Safety advantage in front-entrance buses
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ACCIDENTS caused when passengers were alighting from or boarding buses would be entirely eliminated by the more extensive use of front-entrance buses, said Lord Segal last week. He suggested that the safety factor was the chief consideration in deciding whether the use of these buses should be extended.
Lord Champion, the Minister without Portfolio, agreed that these buses had a safety advantage in that passengers could not get on and off when the bus was moving.
He added that safety was obviously one of the factors London Transport would have in mind when considering how far they should extend the operation of these vehicles.
And he pointed out that in the regulations issued at the beginning of this month the Transport Minister had given operators more freedom to experiment in this type of vehicle.
He had said earlier that Mrs. Castle welcomed the London experiments with front-entrance buses as promising various advantages to the public and to the Board.
Lord Rowley hoped that these buses would be made much more comfortable and was told that such a suggestion "coming from such a quarter" surely would be considered by the Board.