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A SPECIAL meeting of Nottingham City Council decided on Monday that recommendations made by a committee of inquiry and private consultants into the workings of the transport department should be kept under constant review and, where practicable, put into effect. The meeting called for a progress report from the transport committee next June.
En a report submitted to the council, the transport committee challenged as excessive savings of £1,290,000 which the private consultants estimated could be made in the undertaking's engineering section.
The committee claimed that the consultants had underestimated the number of employees needed in the section, and overestimated the bus-fleet requirements by 1971. They claimed that the estimated saving should be amended to 1379,000.
Expenditure of £512,000, which the consultants said their scheme would cost over the five years, did not cover the cost of all the projects recommended, the committee pointed out.
A32 Additional expenditure on them would bring the total to £1,412,000.
The committee stated that they could find no evidence which justified the charge by the special committee that the standard of efficiency was not as high as it could be. primarily because of lack of drive by the management as far down as inspector level. Indeed, the knowledge which the committee had of the management and staff pointed to the opposite conclusion, it was stated.
Dealing with a recommendation on the distribution of the trolleybus and motorbus fleets, the transport committee stated that it would not be practicable to confine the operation of troileybuses to the city centre, using motorbuses for the longer runs.
On the basis of present-day figures and circumstances, the transport committee recommended the council to move towards the abandonment of trolleybuses over a number of years. The committee commented that such a move' would nullify the consultants' _ scheme.