I Rural Bus Services
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Rural bus services have been much in the news for some years now and a Midland reader now finds some confusion as to which of the official reports is being referred to on occasion. He accordingly asked for clarification as to the present position.
It is now seven years since the then Minister of Transport set up a committee, under the chairmanship of Professor D. I. Jack, to study rural bus services. Their report was published in March 1961 (HMSO Code No. 55-390, price 4s. 6d.). As with many inquiries which were to follow, the Jack Committee, in concluding that the decline in rural bus services caused hardship to a few people and inconvenience to more, told experienced p.s.v. operators little that they did not know already.
Then in 1961 two further reports appeared dealing with bus services in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Code No. 55-395, price 1s. 3d.), and in 1962 on the rural transport problem in Wales (Cmnd. 1821. price 3s. 6d.).
IIn order to assist further consideration of the problem.
• local inquiries were arranged in four rural areas in 1963,
1 namely : Lincolnshire, Montgomeryshire, Westmorland and INorthamptonshire. The resulting report was published last
▪ year entitled Rural Bus Services—report of local enquiries.
1 Code No. 55-420, price 3s. 6d.
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