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Josef wrote:Now that we've established that the SLP policy is not to have any policies but just to make stuff up instead, I'm actually finding this stuff quite entertaining.
Note to the usual SLP apologist suspects : I'd like a left-of-centre council/government. My vote has not previously been fixed. But the SLP are doing thir damnedest to ensure that it is.
"The leader of Glasgow City Council has called on the Scottish Government to think again over new changes to fuel subsidies for bus companies and to look at regulating the bus industry in the wake of a summit about recent cuts to services in the city.
Bus operators have blamed cuts to the Bus Service Operator Grant (BSOG) they receive and a new cap on concessionary fare reimbursement for service changes which were announced last month - which included the axing of several bus routes in Glasgow and the curtailing of others.
The emergency summit was held in the city chambers on Friday and was attended by Labour, Lib Dem and Green councillors, local bus operators, trade union representatives, the chair of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) and the director of the Confederation of Passenger Transport.
Changes to the way the BSOG is calculated means that urban bus operators – such as First in Glasgow - will now receive less subsidy from the government but that the cash given to rural bus networks will increase because the grant is now based on mileage rather than fuel consumption."
"It is unacceptable and entirely misleading for operators to state that any service level or fare changes are solely down to amendments to the Bus Service Operators Grant scheme when, for Scottish operators as a whole, the change in the BSOG budget represents somewhere around 1-2% of most fares."
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