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RANSATLANTIC grass appears be greener whichever side of le ocean one happens to be Id dandelions bloom like • chids. West Yorkshire Council to pay an American firm of isiness consultants £122,000 tell it how to avoid higher bus res and reduced services. The stem cost the ratepayers £50 illion last year.
Meanwhile, the New York iblic transport authority has yarded London Transport's msultancy service a £1.5 illion contract to help to odernise the city's bus and iderground railway network. It not difficult to understand why 'est Yorkshire has not called in >ndon Transport, whose higher res and reduced services have ade monotonous national headlines for weeks.
What is less comprehensible is why New York, which has already been advised by the consultants selected by West Yorkshire, should have turned to London Transport. I am even more baffled by John Gunnell, West Yorkshire Council leader, who seems to believe that consultants who have apparently failed to modernise New York's system will put his council five years ahead of current thinking on public transport.