Another self-help bus plan
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RURAL communities in the Tayside region may be provided with buses and asked to run their own services. Tayside transport committee is now considering the plan which would allow villages to tailor the services to suit their own needs.
This news comes hard on the heels of the :announcement (CM last week) that a similar " self-help" scheme will start in Norfolk at the end of the month.
ClIr James Scott, convener of the transport committee, stressed, 'h owever, that nothing definite had been decided and appealed to the public for suggestions on haw best transport could be organised for everyone's 'benefit.
Public transport in rural areas is facing a cash crisis. The Scottish Bus Group has asked for a subsidy of £423,500 for the period to next March to ensure the continuation of bus services in lossmaking rural routes. The regional council has only £254,000 available to 'subsidise such services.