Tyne & Wear public transport use was rising pre-deregulation

John Baggs Horsham RH12
13 July 2021
 

Roger Davies’ retrospective under the above title (LTT 30 April), covers quite a lot of ground and would take some time to comment on in detail. There are, however, one or two points that I should like to take issue with.

Though it might have been true in some areas that “the 1970s and 80s were... the worst times in the history of buses”, this was certainly not true everywhere. In the case of Tyne & Wear, bus patronage rose steadily throughout the 1970s, particularly in...

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