Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Free travel, Blair.
Blair to bust bus deadlock?
Following a Downing Street meeting last night there was a small glimmer of hope that the funding gap faced by Nexus for implementing Gordon Brown's plans for free OAP travel may be plugged from central sources. Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged to get himself personally involved in the embarassing dispute between the Treasury, Tyne and Wear's five local authorities, travel operator Nexus, and South Shields MP David Miliband.
PTA chairman, Coun David Wood, said today: "I am pleased talks are taking place at the highest level. But if there is nothing definite we will have to proceed on the basis that we have not got the money."
Newcastle East & Wallsend MP Nick Brown said: "We are talking about covering the whole shortfall this year and in future creating a new formula so that Tyne & Wear does not have a structural shortfall."
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