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Slow response to bulk passes
3rd September 1971, Page 34
3rd September 1971
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• A plan introduced by the West Midland PTE for firms to buy quarterly bus passes in bulk for their workers has met with a very slow response. And depressed economic conditions in Birmingham and the Black Country are felt to be the main reason.
Only a few small firms have so far taken advantage of the scheme. Now the PTE is calling in consultants to launch a selling drive. The passes allow travel seven days a week at the equivalent of a child's fare.
The PTA's chairman, Aid. Sir Francis Griffin. said that because it was a new idea. it might be sonic time before employers and employees realized the great advantages of the scheme.