Rural bus services 'face cuts'
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MANY bus services in the country areas
which were paying for themselves now would not be doing so in a few years' time and many of them would be curtailed or abandoned, said Mr. N. Topham of the Department of Economics and Commerce, Hull University, at Scarborough at the weekend.
He was speaking at a court on parish government organized by the Yorkshire Rural Community Council in conjunction with the Workers' Education Association. He said it was forecast that in the next 10 years East Yorkshire Motor Services would significantly cut down its services.
Large profits were not being earned by public passenger transport operators and the signs were that the inexorable growth of private car ownership would continue to erode those commercially viable sectors of the industry remaining.
He said the decline in public passenger transport started in the mid-1950s and from 1955 to 1963 the share of public transport in consumer expenditure on transport and travel declined from 47 per cent to 34 per cent.
Due to transport difficulties many people in the country were unable to pursue further education and were missing their vocation—a wastage the country could not afford. Possible solutions might be the r6nission of fuel tax and one body only responsible for rural transport.
E21,899 Recorder: Sunderland Corporation has accepted a E21,899 tender by General Precision Systems Ltd., of Aylesbury for the supply and installation of an automatic time recording device at the new central area bus station.