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Small Surpluses For Two Ptas
• Two Passenger Transport Authorities, in advance of the publication of their first annual reports, have announced small surpluses. They are Tyneside, which made a net revenue......
Three Ways To Subsidize
• The principle of subsidizing bus services from the rates has been accepted by the Sheffield Labour group controlling the City Council, although by how much has yet to be......
Discount Fares
• Customers who travel on market day from the March and Whittlesey areas to Mr Frank Brierley's Peterborough discount store and spend more than £4 in the shop, are given half......
Safer By O-m-o
• Indications are that casualties incurred while boarding or alighting are very much lower with one-man-operated buses than with other buses, said Mr Eldon Griffiths,......
Welsh Subsidy
• About 170 bus services operating in rural areas of Wales were being subsidized by local authorities, or were likely to be subsidized, at the rate of £250,000—£300,000 a year,......
Secret Ballot
• The 1500 bus drivers employed by Tyneside PTE have voted in a secret ballot to accept a new wages structure which gives them an average pay rise of approximately 10 per cent......