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Article: DRIVERS WILL USE PUBLIC TRANSPORT .. AT A PRICE
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- May 12, 2000
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NEARLY nine out of ten Edinburgh drivers want more money to be
spent on public transport, a new survey reveals.
And more than seven out of ten say they would switch from their
cars if the quality of bus and train services was improved.
Only 6.7 per cent of drivers questioned disagreed with the idea
that more money should be spent on improving the city's public
transport network.
The report, due out this week, says Edinburgh motorists were also
more likely to use public transport occasionally than those in the
other cities surveyed - Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield.
They were chosen because they were large cities with an interest
in developing their transport systems.
But it concludes that ...