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STRATHCLYDE PTE has won its East Kilbride new town despite may shed jobs at its East Kilbrid The application was one of a series by both operators that resulted in a two-day licensing battle before the Scottish Traffic Commissioners. The Commissioners granted all but one of the applications.
They said the PTE's applications resulted from a direct operations bus and passenger analysis (doba) and the PTE was anxious to expand beyond its traditional boundary, following the abolition of its Glasgow City monopoly in 1982. Central said its applications were made to protect its revenue.
The new services were designed to link East Kilbride and the Glasgow housing scheme at Castlemilk, and to adjust services in Castlemilk and Rutherglen.
Central argued that it was the existing East Kilbride operator and said a grant of the PTE's application would create an over-provision of the services, would make calls on the public purse and would upset the balance network introduced by agreement following a Scotmap market analysis survey.
The PTE's plan to link deprived Castlemilk with relatively prosperous East Kilbride seemed so beneficial to the Commissioners that Central's arguments could not outweigh It.
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position to Central's similar application, with its operating arm saying "bad" and the co-ordinating arm saying "good" led them to grant both applications.
They also granted two PTE and two Central applications designed to give new connections between East Kilbride and the northern Glasgow housing schemes at Milton and Summerston.
But, to stop Central from abstracting £250,000 a year from the PTE's city services, they directed that one of Central's services terminate in the city centre instead of Milton.
But the Commissioners felt it would be against the interests of the public to authorise two virtually identical services in Rutherglen.
• Strathclyde has lost an appeal against the Scottish Traffic Commissioners' refusal of its plans to extend a service into Paisley from Glasgow.