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IN THE Commons last week Robert McCrindle (Conservative, Brentwood and Ongar) noted that the very success of British Rail's Inter City services had forced the passenger road transport industry to look again at its fares, and Transport Minister Norman Fowler was in agreement.
Under the Transport Bill there would be further competition between coach operators on long-distance services, and he believed that such competition was in the best interests of the travelling public.
Stanley Cohen (Labour, Leeds South-east) maintained that the competition to which he had referred had resulted in duplication and had wasted economic and social resources. He asked the Government to look again at these consequences.
The Minister told him that the alternative was to establish a transport central planning authority which would be vastly wasteful and which had been entirely rejected by the previous Labour Government.