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Dundee fares row
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WITH only two weeks to go until Dundee Corporation bus services are taken over by the new Tayside Regional Council, a row has blown up between the two authorities and the Traffic Commissioners.
Dundee Corporation applied for a lp increase and this was granted at a hearing at the end of April. However, Mr A. B. Birnie, the chairman of the Commissioners, said it was glaringly obvious that a bigger increase could have been asked for. Mr R. K. Scott, deputy director of administration for Tayside Regional Council, sought a deferment of the increase at the hearing. He said it was peculiar that the Reg ional Council had been expected to get details of the application only from reading newspapers or from Notices and Proceedings.
The Regional Council estimated a deficit of £787,000 for Dundee Transport for the coming year, said Mr Scott, but had restricted the overall subsidy for transport in the Tayside region to £500,000.
He said that the expenditure must be contained by increased Dundee bus fares. The Regional Council proposed to put an application for a further fares increase in the hands of the Commissioners by the end of May.