Ridley cries 'disaster'
4th May 1985, Page 20
4th May 1985
Page 20
Page 20, 4th May 1985
— Ridley cries 'disaster'
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TRANSPORT Secretary Nicholas Ridley has branded Labour's charter for transport as a "manifesto for disaster".
Commenting on the charter, reported in last week's CM, Mr Ridley said it was the "same old recipe of regulating, central planning and escalating subsidy that had been rehashed and was as unpalatable as it was stale."
He said it was cheeky of Labour's chief transport spokesman, Gwyneth Dunwoody, to talk about wasteful use of resources when Labour's policies were the ones that had contributed to a catastrophic decline of public transport: Subsidies had gone through the roof, but bus travel had fallen 30 per cent in a decade.
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