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Glasgow tour
GLASGOW is to run its city but tour again this year following the popularity of the tour last summer when more than 44,000 people used it, more than half of them Glaswegians. '
The tour leaves from George Square, Glasgow, every day at 10.30am and 2.30pm with an extra evening tour at 7.30pm from May 7. Fares are 60p for adults and 30p for children.
National economies
THE National Bus Company's provisional estimate, on the basis of the allocation of transport supplementary grants for 1976-77, was that it would be necessary to make economies amounting to about four per cent of its total stage mileage, said Dr John Gilbert, the Minister for Transport, in the Commons.
The actual level and distribution of the necessary economies would, he added, depend on the results of negotiations which were continuing between the operating companies and county councils.
Hand over
HAVING already approved payment of £366,600 to United Counties as subsidies for local bus services, Bedfordshire County Council now plans to hand over another £84,000.
The £366,600 was in respect of operating losses during the last nine months of 1975 when the actual deficit was £386,400, and the deficit for the current quarter is estimated at £75,000. The company is being told to cut operational costs and increase its efficiency.
Service cut
ALTHOUGH private operators are clamouring for licences to run to the National Exhibition Centre at Birmingham the regular bus service is running half empty.
West Midland PTE have proposed that their service to the NEC should be cut by 60 per cent except when exhibitions are being staged. Services for exhibitions would be re-shaped, running until exhibitions closed in the evenings.