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E MONEY must be made available the rates to subsidise passenger ;port authorities, said Jack Green week.
d a share of Government money Id also be transferred from British to bus services, said Mr Green, deng a paper on Public transport – the ies and beyond at the Association of rict Councils' annual transport igers meeting.
i.de unions were better able to wheel teal in the political arena than were managements, which had not been h enough, for example, to make sure e spare parts and reliability situation .e introducing one-person operation. ar-engined buses should be aband, said Mr Green, crew wages were still too low, and taxis still offered unfair competition to buses. Other contributions came from Lincoln City Transport's general manager Peter Sephton, who indicated that public opinion was now more prepared to accept the need for subsidies for local bus services, and predicted that subsidy levels would increase and create a resurgence of interest in locally-owned and operated public transport.
Finally, Southampton University's Professor Ian Cheesman reviewed some advanced transport systems that could be in use in the next century: integrated fare structures and payment systems for land, sea and air travel, buses used for light freight transport, and shopping by videotelephone were among his suggestions.