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Council ownership distorts market

By The Basa ⋅ August 9, 2005 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

An interesting letter to the Evening News:

SPEAKING about the suspension of Greenways during the Lothian Buses strike D Humphries says, “No wonder First couldn’t compete with them in the bus wars” (Letters, August 5).

Who can doubt that Edinburgh City Council’s ownership of Lothian Buses distorts the market? Or that it will be their own company which will manage any tax-payer funded new infrastructure which will seriously affect its competition.

I’ll never forget how the council hiked the taxi tariff by 15 per cent, despite widespread opposition from the trade and the public, at the very time their bus company introduced their expanded night bus service. How does the council get away with it?

Jim Taylor The Murrays Brae, Edinburgh

Good questions – all needs answers.

Council ownership distorts market

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