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Car subsidy plan rejected
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• Proposals by a working group of the Northern Economic Planning Council to improve road passenger facilities in rural areas have not been supported by Northumberland county highways committee. The proposals include subsidizing car owners on a mileage basis to carry passengers, using postal vehicles to carry passengers, making allowances to bus operators whose services are hampered by restrictions on drivers' working hours, and granting fuel tax concessions to rural operators.
The highways committee contended that some of the recommendations would make the position of rural bus operators worse. Allowing private cars to carry fare-paying passengers would take more people away from buses, plunging bus services into deeper trouble. This proposal, the committee said, should be used only where there was no bus service at all.