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THE year 1967 was quite eventful. It was the year of flower power, love-ins, the Six Day War and continuing conflict in Vietnam. So it’s not too surprising, given everything else that was going on, that the Labour government’s Transport Bill, doesn’t get much of a look in when the story of the year is told.
The bill though, and what it led to, needs to be remembered.
That’s because it provides a solution to the current crisis in public transport where passengers are being hit with drastically reduced services and ever-rising fares and taxpayers continue to subsidise private operators.
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