abour plans bus back-track
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The bus industry could be made to retrace its steps if the our Party wins the next general election.
g the Institute of Road Transport Engineers conference at ihull last week, the Labour Party's chief transport spokesman ) Hughes promised: "Labour policies will imply changes. We will put the bus industry back where it was," he said, leafing either a reversion to public ownership or an increase Deal authority bus spending.
Uiother of the party's intentions is to reinstate the new bus nt. Its abolition has had a severe effect on operators, accordto Hughes.
le added that Labour wants to give local authorities more pe to expand local bus services by ending rate-capping that curbed their income. "This will allow more bus buying and -ease the quality of the buses that are corning on stream." icknowledging that not all Tory transport policy has been bad, ;hes commented that the 1980 Transport Act has helped to and the long distance coach business — "even if much of the acity has been taken up by imports...