'Priority for Public Transport'
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A LT HOUGH monorails, hovercraft
and other forms of travel had been considered, Mr, W. Burns, planning officer for Newcastle upon Tyne, said this week he was not certain that the answer to the city's public transport needs of the future would be very far removed from present forms of transport. The aim of his planning team—which was doing much to redesign, on a massive scale, a great deal of the city—was, he said, "to give as much priority as possible to public transport ".
Mr. Burns was announcing plans to increase the size of the university, which is in the city centre area, from its present 4.550 capacity, to accommodate more than 1,000 students in the next 10 years. Only 1,500 car parking spaces are to he provided; these will be for essential users only, not for students.
Mr. Burns said the £20 m. redevelopment of the university site would create a need for a major stopping area for buses in the Barras Bridge area and also a need for re-siting the present Haymarket bus station.